Jun 20, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Hashtag ABG. Anything But Guns. That is the repuglican perspective on the epidemic gun violence continuing to sweep the nation. They blame anything. They offer to investigate anything. They throw money at anything. But they do not address guns as the proximate cause...
May 20, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Last month originalist Supreme Court Justice Alito wrote (in a draft decision for a presumed Court majority overruling the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade decision), “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any...
May 3, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
America has a long history of nonintervention in Eurocentric wars. We are fortunate that bilateral oceans buffer us from immediate threats of conventional warfare. That oceanic moat is less protective in a 21st century airborne or missile attack, but may offer some...
Apr 4, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Readers understand it can be difficult to write about current events when they change quickly. This month’s topic is particularly fast-moving. The words you read today were written two weeks ago. A decade ago, the Republican nominee for president, Mitt Romney, uttered...
Mar 4, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Some of the most progressive Democrats have buyer’s remorse, being not entirely happy with their election choice. Even strong Democrats seem happier to have trump OUT of office than to have Biden IN office. We were spoiled by expectations of “Obama, The Sequel.” That...
