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...
Jan 17, 2022 | The Mesa Paper
Things are looking glum for progressives in the near and medium future. As I’ve written before, the long-term trends are on our side, e.g., voter diversity, younger voter age, populations shift to cities. But there is plenty of well-placed concern about a return to...
Dec 20, 2021 | The Mesa Paper
Sometimes we see news stories about the activities of Congress written in Dragnet’s Sergeant Joe Friday style, “Just the facts, Ma’am.” Readers (and maybe journalists) might be excused for not connecting dots on complex stories about two main functions of Congress:...
