It’s the loss of hope that can kill a democracy. — I’m not looking forward to election night. I think a number of candidates that are not ready for primetime, who built their campaigns on division and lies will win Tuesday. I think the upcoming Congress will be an endless of stream of crap and not focused on, you know governing. …

Why some NeverTrumpers tell themselves the GOP needs a spanking. — The work of politics always contains some form of lies. This isn’t a cynical take on politics. Politics in democratic societies are not all about lies, but it will stretch the truth in order to tell their constituents what they want to hear. One of the reasons, Donald Trump is…

Remember to Keep the main thing, the main thing. — This might be odd for a pastor to say, but my two favorite holidays aren’t religious holidays. They happen to be Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. I consider myself a patriot; I love my country. I love that I have a US Passport that I can proudly show wherever…

Why the GOP Can’t Get Rid of Donald Trump. — Last month, Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle wrote a fiery essay on former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. In the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid by the FBI over classified documents that Trump had in his possession she wrote it is time for the GOP to block him…

Elected politicians can’t fight on their own. — There is a great long-read in the Wall Street Journal about how Kyiv was saved from the Russian Army, not just by its army but by a ragtag group of Ukrainian civilians that joined their military in taking down what was considered one of the world’s mightiest armed forces. Russian…

At a perilous time in American democracy, can the Forward Party rise to the challenge? — I want to believe in the Forward Party. Like a lot of Americans, I would like to see more political parties. Like many Republicans, I’ve grown frustrated and frankly, afraid of the growing illiberalism in the GOP. …

No one really does, but if we care about democracy we should. — There is an old saying about how liberals and conservatives view one another. “Conservatives believe liberals are wrong. Liberals believe conservatives are evil.” Now, these days I don’t know how true this saying is, as there are many conservatives in the Trumpified GOP that seem to hate all things Democrat…

He wasn’t a hero. But he still made the world a better place. — It’s weird to write about the impact Mikhail Gorbachev had on the world. It’s weird because he led a repressive regime that really couldn’t be modernized. It’s weird because the nation he led was responsible for so much suffering around the world. …

The second part of an interview with former Sears Canada CEO Mark Cohen. — We continue with the interview with Mark Cohen, the former CEO of Sears Canada about how a hedge fund manager named Eddie Lampert took down two of the most iconic brands in America. …