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More so than at any time in at least a half-century, and possibly at any time since Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, the American system of governance and way of life is under existential duress. As one astute remonstrator observed on Twitter, what we are now witnessing is an attempt at regime change in the United States of America.
The past month has seen domestic turmoil perhaps unprecedented at any time since the heyday of Vietnam War protests.
What comes of a nation whose newspaper of record publicly caves to overwhelming pressure and repudiates an opinion piece written by a duly elected leading national legislator who boasts degrees from the nation's most famous educational institution, has undeniably relevant life experience on the subject and advances an argument supported by a majority of citizens? America is about to find out.
The unjust and indefensible death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has ignited the combustible spark that laid barely beneath the surface of the months-long coronavirus lockdowns and self-inflicted economic ruination that the lockdowns have entailed. And the destructive outburst of that simmering tension has been ugly to watch.
This past week, years-long tensions over the rather peculiar Twitter feed of the president of the United States reached a boiling point. President Donald Trump, of late, has been engaged in a rather sordid and baseless bit of social media mudslinging about popular cable host Joe Scarborough's purported involvement in the death of a congressional aide from many years ago.
It is difficult, bordering on impossible, to exaggerate the nature of the threat posed to America this century by the Chinese Communist Party.
As Israel forms its new government and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returns stateside from Jerusalem, the contested issue of Israeli "annexation" of large swaths of Judea and Samaria — what the international community illogically calls the West Bank — is beginning to permeate anew American public discourse.
Historians recognize some U.S. presidential elections as realignment elections — elections that fundamentally alter and reconfigure the various voting constituencies of our major political parties.
On Tuesday evening, the mayor of the city that is home to the largest Jewish population in the world called upon law enforcement officials to round up the Jews.
The coronavirus pandemic and its fallout will usher in countless trends.
All across the nation, state and local officials have glommed onto the coronavirus pandemic as an expedient to concretize their long-subdued political fantasies. Many progressive governors and mayors have scratched their inner authoritarian urges by enacting draconian crackdowns, often dripping with palpable animus, against religious communities and church gatherings. Alas, as Rahm Emanuel infamously told us, the progressive instinct is to never let a good crisis go to waste.
When the Obama administration pushed for nuclear rapprochement with the terrorist Iranian regime, our media beclowned itself. In order to bamboozle the American people about the administration's desired capitulation to the world's No. 1 state sponsor of jihad, then-deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes created, according to his own admission, a media "echo chamber." The oh-so-brave guardians of democracy in our fourth estate dutifully obliged their marching orders.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, is having a bit of a moment.
Last year, the popular HBO miniseries "Chernobyl," which recounted the eponymous 1986 nuclear disaster in Soviet Ukraine, enthralled audiences across America. Fast-forward to 2020.
Three weeks ago, President Donald Trump seemed poised for reelection this November. And then the world changed.
