The Soundings Blog
A Mass Murdering Death Cult
A likely apocryphal quote attributed to Joseph Stalin, one of the greatest mass murderers of the 20th century, is “A single...
Economic Response To COVID-19
As Republicans try to use the COVID-19 pandemic to once again get US taxpayers to pay for another slush fund/bailout for...
Pandemic And The Post-American World
The other day, French President Emmanuel Macron told the French people “we are at war” as he announced emergency measures to...
Democrats’ Dilemma
Joe Biden was near the bottom of my preferences for a Democratic nominee for 2020. But my preferences are not really...
GOP Will Rely On Voter Suppression In 2020
In April of 2016, an obscure Republican congressman from Wisconsin declared that the state’s new voter ID law would finally put...
Courts Begin To Sign Off On Autocracy
One of the features of the modern failed or illiberal democracy is that what the autocrat does is normally within the...