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Carville and the Midterms

Posted on July 21, 2025 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, July 21, 2025 Thirty-three years ago, when Bill Clinton was running for president, Democratic strategist James Carville burst on the scene. He brought with him an acerbic wit, an unusual talent for political analysis, and a good-old-boy Louisiana … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged Barack Obama, bill clinton, Donald Trump, Gestapo, health care, ICE, James Carville, Jeffrey Epstein, medicaid, nine-eleven, repeal, Stephen Miller, tax cuts | Leave a comment

I Love Donald Trump, but…

Posted on December 20, 2024 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, December 20, 2024 …I love my country more. Those were the words of a right-wing extremist in the House of Representatives, explaining why he voted against Trump’s insistence on suspending the debt ceiling for two years, as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged 2017 tax cuts, absolute power, congress, constitution, debt ceiling, Donald Trump, education, Elon Musk, Envirnomental Protection, health care, Hoen Thune, House of Representatives, John Cronyn, Mitch McConnell, Senate, social security, Vivek Ramaswami | 1 Comment

The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump

Posted on July 15, 2024 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, July 15, 2024 Assassinations are among the worst things humans can do. They tend to occur during periods of anger and divisiveness when tensions are already high – clichés about tinderboxes come to mind. In an unstable situation … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged Alex Jones, Arch Duke Ferdinand, authoritarianism, Donald Trump, Fascism, gun restrictions, gun violence, health care, JD Vance, Joe Biden, Medicaid funding, mental illness, Sandy Hook, social media | Leave a comment

Unintended Consequences

Posted on August 2, 2022 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, August 2, 2022 Some people plan everything they do in agonizing detail. Others, like me, play things by ear, trusting that we can adapt to changing conditions as they arise. That’s not to say we never think about … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged Andrew Yang, atomic bomb, centrists, Civil Rights, cold war, COVID, FDR, fossil fuels, guns, health care, insurrection, korea, nuclear arms race, Obama, planning, reagan, Science, social security, Soviet Union, supreme court, taxes, Trump, Ukraine, vladimir Putin, Volodymir Zelensky, white supremacists, women's right, worst case scenarios | Leave a comment

States’ Rights and the Future of Our Democracy

Posted on December 3, 2021 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, December 3, 2021 When we studied the fifteen years between the American revolution and the adoption of our Constitution, our teachers presented the debate over how the new republic’s government should look as a done deal. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Brown v Board of Education, Franklin Roosevelt, health care, Mississipi, Mitch McConnell, New Deal, roe v wade, segregation, Tenth Amendment, Texas, Thomas Jefferson, voting rights, wisconsin, women's rights | 2 Comments

Saving Our Future

Posted on June 30, 2021 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, June 30, 2021 If it wasn’t obvious before last week, it should be now. Our country and the planet of which it is a small part are in trouble. The problem is more serious than petty politics, huge … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged British Columbia, climate change, congress, COVID vaccination, drought, ecosystems, health care, heat, I-35 bridge collapse, infrastructure, internet access, jet stream, Las Vegas, politics, Portland, San Diego, Seattle, wildfires | Leave a comment

A Nation Spinning Out of Control

Posted on March 23, 2021 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, March 23, 2021 We’re all weary from what we experienced in the last year. We’ve suffered terribly from the pandemic, losing friends and family members, jobs, and careers. Our children’s educations have been disrupted. We talk about things returning … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged alliances, bipartisanship, COVID stimulus, economic recovery, filibuster, health care, herd immunity, infrastructure, jobs, mass shootings, pandemix, Right wing extremists, The Big Lie, trade wars, vaccines, voting rights | 2 Comments

A Party At War with Itself

Posted on February 15, 2021 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, February 15, 2021 In his new book, A History of What Comes Next, Silvain Neuvel describes the unfortunate circumstances in which the German population, specifically, it’s surviving men, found itself in 1946: The Germans are in shock, stunned, … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged Adam Kinzinger, Barack Obama, bernie sanders, center right, class warfare, conservative principles, demagogues, elitism, Fascism, germany, health care, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, national debt, New Deal, shame, Tea Party, The Big Lie, third party, Trump, vaccines | Leave a comment

The Painful Demise of a Would-Be Autocrat

Posted on November 14, 2020 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, November 14, 2020 He began as merely an annoying gadfly. With an ego large enough to fill a stadium, he believed the world was hanging on his opinions. He flouted social norms, bragged about his alleged prowess with … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged Barack Obama, birth controversy, Central America, Climate accords, disabled Americans, ego, Fascism, fox news, Gold Star families, health care, Joseph Stalin, Kim Jong Un, mexicans, murder, narcissism, pandemic, Pol Pot, racism, Roger Ailes, Science, South America, treason, white supremacists, women's rights | 2 Comments

You’re Fired!

Posted on November 6, 2020 by alanpzendell

Alan Zendell, November 6, 2020 The American people have spoken. By the time all the votes are counted, Joe Biden will have received five million votes more than Donald Trump. In most countries that purport to be democracies, that’s all … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles | Tagged baseless accusations, Chris Christie, election fraud, electoral college, fox news, health care, Marco Rubio, margin of victory, pandemic, repudiation, rob portman, Ruppert Murdoch, Science | 2 Comments

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Carville and the Midterms

States’ Rights and the Future of Our Democracy

Saving Our Future

A Nation Spinning Out of Control

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You’re Fired!

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