A Petri dish of fascism — There is a scene near the end of the old Woody Allen comedy, Bananas, featuring the inaugural speech of the new dictator as he takes power over the fictional nation of San Marcos. …

But for some, this unity must be stopped — Remember January 6th, when Fox News couldn’t decide if the people raiding the Capitol were Antifa, patriots, or tourists? It presented a serious ratings challenge that required numerous backflips to maintain the own-the-libs narrative demanded by their audience. When it was over, what remained of their “legitimate political discourse” was…

And it begins with understanding today’s Republican Party — In addition to being plagued by a plague, America suffers from what I’ve so often referred to as Problem #1 — the reality that we no longer have a shared reality. …

As my regular readers know, I have long emphasized that all of America’s major dysfunction is rooted in what I have referred to as “Problem #1” — the reality that we are divided by alternate realities. …

And there’s only one man who can do it — I am a Democrat, and in 2024, assuming he is still alive, I will vote for Joe Biden. Ideologically, I am a liberal progressive who believes in the value and capabilities of a robust and competent government as the best approach to delivering the greatest good to our country. But…

A preliminary damage assessment — Those of you who have followed me in the past know that I have long harped on what I believe is “Problem #1” facing our country — the reality that we no longer have a shared reality. The prospects for addressing our most daunting challenges as a nation would be…

Will they survive the flood? — With the conclusion of the midterm elections, it appears that the hyper-capitalist Division-Industrial Complex — a loose alliance dominated by Fox News and other right-wing media outlets — has hit a bump in the road. That bump is what we might humbly refer to as “reality”. As I’ve noted in…

For Vlad, winter is coming — “Pretty good for a Russian,” said Dmitry, my Russian client/colleague. It was 2005 and I was working with him in Moscow on the then embryonic bid for Sochi, Russia to host the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. …

The Western world has yet to unleash its most lethal weapon — Problem #1 in America, and now in the world, is stunningly simple and ever more obvious: It is the reality that we have multiple realities. All of our other problems, rooted as they are in controversial issues, can be traced back to the single challenge of competing realities. …