Hoover, FDR, and Biden: An Examination of the First Month of the New Administration“The next president will confront an ongoing global health pandemic and inherit an economy in its worst shape since the Great Depression…Mar 1, 2021Mar 1, 2021
2020 Election Post-Mortem Part 2: Trump and the BaseI propose that no one is better at writing or talking about America today than Ta-Nehisi Coates. In a recent interview with Trevor Noah on…Jan 4, 2021Jan 4, 2021
Paul McLel 11/12/20 2020 Election Post-Mortem Part ITo paraphrase, modernize, and semi-Americanize a proclamation made by far right British tabloid The Sun after the 1992 UK General Election…Dec 5, 2020Dec 5, 2020
Paul McLel 9/1/2020: Trump Plays American Dictator at RNCWe need to wake up. I need to wake up.Dec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Paul McLel 8/23/2020: Highlights from the Democratic National InfomercialThe 2020 Democratic National Convention — for the first time ever virtual and without a live audience — had few highlights and many…Dec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Paul McLel 8/14/2020: Tricky Dick, Meet Kamala HarrisWelcome to the new era of Democratic Party politics. We must now pray at the alter of one Kamala Harris.Dec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Paul McLel 7/10/20: Orlando WalgreensTuesday, March 10th was the day I would unwittingly make what would be the last ho-hum, care-free pharmacy run for a very long time…Dec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Paul McLel 6/26/20: Envisioning a Biden Presidency Part 2So, what would the Joe Biden policy agenda look like should he have only two years (four at most) to spend political capital? It is hard…Dec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Paul McLel 6/25/2020: Imagining a Biden Presidency Part IJoe Biden’s 2020 campaign has always been about returning to some illusionary conception of the American “normal”. It makes sense, then…Dec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
Paul McLel 3/29/20: HERE THEY COME TO SAVE THE DAY!(THE DNC LEARNS ONE STINKIN UGLY LESSON FROM 2016)Dec 2, 2020Dec 2, 2020
