Posting History for dratler
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| Make Plans, not War How the Return of Unrestrained Capitalism Eroded the Foundations of Global Trade (Note: this post is a shortened and streamlined version of a longer essay posted here.)
With his threat to impose huge new tariffs on China tomorrow if China... |
dratler | 05/09/2019 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| Elizabeth Warren, Woman with a Plan Pundits are all agog at Joe Biden’s much-anticipated entry into the presidential race. Right away, he threw the gauntlet at the feet of our would-be dictator. Dis-electing Trump, Joe said, is our nation’s main task. If we can do that, Joe assured us,... |
dratler | 05/05/2019 | 8 | 13 | - | - |
| Kavanaugh's confirmation caught in a "fork" [Note: the following analysis appears in my personal blog under a shorter title. I thought the issue’s importance deserved a wider audience. This post was composed before additional claims of Kavanaugh’s sexual predation came to light.]
In... |
dratler | 09/24/2018 | 5 | 9 | - | - |
| The End of Trumpism “The darkest hour is just before dawn.”—Old Proverb
At the end of the second day of the Kavanaugh Hearings, other news inspired a welcome sense of hope. For the first time since I woke up from surgery on November 8, 2016, only to watch Donald... |
dratler | 09/06/2018 | 6 | 10 | - | - |
| Stacey Abrams and a New America In a recent essay on my own blog, I promised to lay out my Geezers’ strategy for supporting a “blue wave” in November. On reflection, I think it mostly boils down to one candidate and one state: Stacey Abrams of Georgia (although there are other... |
dratler | 08/24/2018 | 8 | 6 | - | - |