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The Midterm Elections
Alan Zendell, October 27, 2022 The much-anticipated 2022 midterm elections are only twelve days away. It feels surreal. It’s almost as if we never completed the last election cycle. A frightening number of Americans still believe the lie that the … Continue reading
The Reality of a Nuclear World Order
Alan Zendell, October 10, 2022 The week after next is Cuban Missile Crisis Week. It will mark sixty years during which the world managed to avoid self-destruction with nuclear weapons. I have vivid memories of the final day of the … Continue reading
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Tagged cuban missile crisis, hiroshima, John F Kennedy, NATO, Nikita Khrushchev, terrorism, Ukraine, vladimir Putin
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The Challenges We Face
Alan Zendell, September 30, 2022 The phrase, “When it rains, it pours,” is usually a reference to problems piling on top of each other. Not to strain the metaphor too much, depending on what those problems are, they can lead … Continue reading
Autocrats, Real and Imagined
Alan Zendell, September 22, 2022 The two immediate crises faced by everyone on Earth stem from the same source – the trend toward autocrats and the cults that support them. Our future may hinge on the actions of two men, … Continue reading
Wind Farms
Alan Zendell, September 15, 2022 Of all the issues critical to our future that have been taken hostage by political extremists, climate change may be the most serious, depending on whether you believe the long-term health of our planet or … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Cape Cod, carbon emissions, climate change, coal, Denmark, energy independence, green energy, Hyannsport, hypocrisy, Inflation Reduction Act, Jennifer Granholm, Maine, natural gas, not in my backyard, oil, Oregon, russia, saving democracy, Ted Kennedy, Ukraine
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Positive Signs
Alan Zendell, September 13, 2022 As 2022 began, everything seemed to be trending in the wrong direction. Congress was hopelessly deadlocked. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had re-aligned himself with Donald Trump, tying his future to the former president’s. Democrats … Continue reading
Tough Choices
Alan Zendell, September 9, 2022 The next couple of months are not a time when Americans who care about our future can afford to take our eyes off the ball. We’re under a lot of stress, from inflated prices, women’s … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, bigotry, censorship, democracy, elections, homophobia, inflation, misogyny, presidential crimes, presidential pardons, Queen Elizabeth, reproductive health, russia, Ukraine
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The Trends, They Are A-Changing
Alan Zendell, August 30, 2022 For a year-and-a-half, many Democrats criticized President Biden for being too passive in the face of unrelenting attacks from the right and the extremes within his own party. They asked, “Why doesn’t he fight back?” … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Schumer, energy prices, equity markets, EU, inflation, jobs, Joe Manchin, kevin mccarthy, MAGA, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, NATO, President Biden, russia, supreme court, Ukraine, unemployment, vladimir Putin
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Inflection Points
Alan Zendell, August 16, 2022, President Biden often says we are at an inflection point in our history. In mathematics, an inflection point defines when a downward trend turns upward, or vice versa. That sounds very technical, but applied to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Kinzinger, changing trends, climate change, congress, DOJ, Donald Trump, drug prices, espionage, gasoline prices, Georgia, history, inflation, insurrection, Liz Cheney, mathemtics, Merrick Garland, New York, President Biden, recession, right wing extremism, Rudy Giuliani, russia, supreme court, Ukraine, veterans, violence
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