Thanksgiving 2025 should be about gratitude and grace, but this year it’s exposing empty wallets, political trench warfare at the table, and leaders gaslighting us that life is “wonderful” while millions slide toward modern breadlines. In this iPINIONS commentary, I explain how inflation, culture wars, and Trumpian excess have turned Thanksgiving into a stress test… Read more.
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Labor Day in Trump’s America: Traffic, Outsourcing, and Political Gaslighting
America celebrates traffic and sales while workers work. This post shows how grievance politics swap wages for outrage… how offshoring buys cheap goods at the cost of jobs… and how algorithms now do what foremen used to do. iPINIONS contends that the theater is the point… and workers pay for the tickets. Read my full… Read more.
Trump Launches Strikes Against Yemen, Starting Another ‘Stupid War’
On guard, Yemen President Trump took time out from yet another golfing weekend at Mar-a-Lago to announce military strikes against Yemen on his social media platform. U.S. forces launched a ‘decisive and powerful’ attack on Houthi militants in Yemen, President Donald Trump said Saturday, an escalation against the group targeting maritime traffic and American troops… Read more.
Delusions of Despair Undermining Obama’s Presidency?
When Barack Obama said he wanted to be a transformative president I’m sure he did not have in mind a transformation from the personification of hope in 2008 to the personification of despair this year. Yet this is the only transformation his (predominantly Republican) critics see. What is delusional about this, however, is that chief… Read more.
With friends like Bill Clinton…
Evidently Bill Clinton is so desperate to prevent Barack Obama from going down in history as a more transformative and consequential president than he that he has decided to write a book, Back to Work, trumpeting all of the policies he’d be pursuing if he were president today. Never mind that almost all of the… Read more.




