For Banana Republicans, The Bill Has Come Due
I’ve refrained from Republican-bashing for over a year, since How Trump Turned the GOP into Banana Republicans and #StopTheSteal: What’s Next for the Banana Republic?. I’ll go back down to low...
View ArticleIs Trump Facing Buster This Time?
We do a lot of Trump-bashing on this site, but we have to give the man the respect he has earned in one context: Republican primary elections. Donald Trump has no chance of winning the general...
View ArticleHow the GOP Takes Back the Suburbs
Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 motivated Democrats to embark on a soul-searching journey to reconnect with the plight of the white working class in the upper Midwest. Countless op-eds about...
View ArticleWant to Be an Artist
I recently hired an agency to help with the minutiae of selling online. I’ve hired this out before and never blown my load over results, so I play the field. Meeting my account manager (virtually) was...
View ArticleThe Art of Badmouthing in a Second Language
I miss the simple guilty pleasure of gossiping, badmouthing, maligning and using foul language in public. In Latin America of course, in English. On a day out with a fellow expat, you don’t have to...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of China?
The most enduring feature of Donald Trump’s legacy was affecting a bipartisan pivot to a confrontational stance with China. I agree we should get tough on their companies, given their grossly unfair...
View ArticleRust Belt Revival, a Great Migration
I am predicting a second Great Migration in the United States, one that contradicts recent trends. For all my life, Americans flocked to the Sun Belt: southern states with mild winters. They abandoned...
View ArticleWho Moves to Philly?
When I first got here, I was caught flatfooted by Philadelphians asking me the same question: “What brought you to Philly?” It’s a familiar question to someone from the same kind of city, a city not...
View ArticleWhat You Don’t Know About Kensington, Philadelphia
The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia may have become the most notorious skid row in the United States. Videos abound of the tolerated drug market’s zombie-like addicts not only in English, but...
View Article‘Trial of the Decade’ Runner Up
Some trials get high publicity because of the horror of their crimes or the famous defendants, like Casey Anthony and OJ Simpson respectively. But some have long-term legal implications and capture...
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