The Official Website of

"The Magazine of the American Scene"
 
(c) 2015 The Society for
the Advancement of Education.
All Rights Reserved.
Search keyword(s): ' Political Landscape'
 
"Pressed" to Destruction: the Saga of Gary Hunt Diana Klebanow
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2015
"He could rage at the press for its blithe savagery, its Puritan hypocrisy, but he should have known. In fact, he did know: he knew the risks and he ignored them."
 
"Red"-y to Run Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2021
Blue States well may see their entire big government structures collapse as the tax bases disappear and the influx of illegal immigrants, crime, and homeless populations skyrocket. These Blue States may turn Red when the welfare dries up.
 
A Bitter Tea for the President to Swallow Stephen F. Hayes
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2010
"Most Americans do not agree with [Barack Obama's] priorities, and many of these citizens now are active in the Tea Party movement, a movement that has succeeded in starting a serious national conversation about a return to limited government."
 
A Breath of Fresh Air Jane M. Orient
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2018
"Pres. Donald Trump has the climate alarmists--including the Pope--in a sweat over his undoing of Obama's energy policies."
 
A Question of Black & White Harry R. Jackson
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2010
"The black-white division is the U.S.'s most intense racial divide. It is freighted with bitterness and suspicion. . . . We have allowed the worst and, arguably, smallest representations of the races to shape how we see one another."
 
Alone, but in the "Right" Richard E. Vatz
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2020
"How are conservatives and conservatism treated today in public colleges and universities?"
 
Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Worsening the Health-Care Labor Shortage Marylee MacDonald
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2018
"Because of the extraordinary expense of long-term care, families turn to immigrants in the 'gray economy,' meaning immigrants here without papers. . . . Inquiring about the person's legal status [is not a] first priority."
 
Are the Liberal Democrats Really Serious?--Is Everyone (read, Republicans) Really Racist?
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: April 2017
 
Branded Karen Leland
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2016
"A standout style-be it a brash Trump or a competent Clinton-is a plus, but it only will take you so far. At some point, going beyond standing for what you believe in and specifically letting people you how you will get there will become a central issue."
 
Campaign Contribution Spillover Adam Fremeth , Brandon Schaufele , Brian Richter
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2019
"Many believe that more needs to be done to control the influence of corporate interests in politics -- especially the role of corporate money."
 
Can Obama Be Beaten? James W. Thomson
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2012
If Bill Clinton were to update his sly slogan for the 2012 election, it would sound something like, "It's the race card this time, stupid."
 
Can Online Town Halls Fix Our Broken Politics?
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: December 2018
 
Can the Deplorables Strike Back? Jane M. Orient
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2021
"The measures government and its partners--big tech, news media, even most medical organizations--are imposing to 'protect' us from a viral disease are the same as those used to suppress political dissent."
 
Can Trump Continue to Get the Better of the Deep State and the Fake-News Media? John Marini
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2019
"…Trump so far has succeeded -- largely through his relentless characterization of most of those in the media as dishonest partisans … -- in preventing the scandals surrounding him from being defined by his enemies in legal, rather than political, terms."
 
Election Integrity Is the Last Thing Democrats Want John R. Lott Jr.
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2022
"With loose absentee voting rules, a country is making itself vulnerable to vote fraud. With mail-in voting, a country is almost begging for vote fraud."
 
Every Life Matters Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2015
"…Advocates of the Black Lives Matter movement are the ideological equivalents of white supremacists. Each subscribes to the ideology of race-based nationalism, an ideology uterly antithetical to freedom and justice."
 
Every Vote Counts . . .and Is Counted? Greg Palast
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2020
"Unless the U.S. radically changes the way we send, receive, and count mail-in ballots, a massive switch to postal voting . . .could lead to the true will of the electorate being nullified."
 
Fake Electors Are Not Fake News Andy Craig
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2022
"The fake electors strategy was a shameful attempt to subvert the Constitution, but the fact that [Pres. Donald] Trump's team was able to identify plausible legal arguments for such a gambit is also a shocking indictment of the current law."
 
Feminism Fights to the Forefront Jack Wang
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2020
"[Kamala Harris' vice presidential] nomination as a woman of color and a mixed-race woman is very significant--especially when we look back at the history of feminism in this country, which has had a complicated relationship to intersectional issues."
 
Gas Tanks and Ballot Boxes Raymond J. Learsy
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2012
The Obama Administration and its Justice Department are in dereliction of their responsibilities, being the oblivious cops on the beat while one of the biggest heists ever continues to pick billions out of our collective pockets.
 
GOP Now Responsible for Fate of ObamaCare
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: December 2014
 
Government's War on COVID Means More American Casualties Jane M. Orient
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2021
" . . . The intelligence from the FDA, CDC, and other authorities is as reliable as what we had in Afghanistan."
 
Hail to the Chief? Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2015
"Critics [have] accused Obama of 'sermonizing, not strategizing,' and of having 'style, not a doctrine.' The Admininstration's euphemisms attest to downplaying violence: 'man-caused disaster' for terrorism; 'workplace violence for the Ft. Hood killings…"
 
Hate Is Off the Back Burner Michael Durfee
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2019
"…Hate does occupy an increasingly large place in the U.S., and our singular voice in times of tragedy--traditionally the president of the U.S.--has been a catalyst for hate."
 
How About Impeaching the Deep State and Congress Instead? Kenneth B. Klein
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2019
"The first resolution on the impeachment of Pres. [Donald] Trump was introduced Jan. 3, the very day the 116th Congress convened."
 
How Partisan Is Issue of Climate Change?
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: August 2019
 
Hurricanes Bring Out the Bluster Bums Jane M. Orient
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2017
"The climate-change agenda is all about restricting our energy supply to sources most vulnerable to destruction in a crisis."
 
In Pursuit of a New President James W. Thomson
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2011
"As [Pres. Barack] Obama himself has stated, elections have consequences--and the votes cast one year from now very well could be for the highest stakes, sans the Civil War, in U.S. history."
 
Is the GOP "Too Dumb to Fail"? Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2016
Keep in mind that "the converse of 'too dumb to fail' is 'too smart to win.' " So, can the Republican Party avoid becoming a "permanent minority"?
 
It Is Time to Impeach Obama Stephen Stone
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2015
Prudence requires that we give the President no further opportunity to weaken or destroy the Constitution--including the prospect of imposing, with his phone and pen, a change in term limits--or otherwise unilaterally altering the rules of governance.
 
Lockdown Lunacy Ryan Bourne
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2021
". . . We ordinarily are wise to oppose government control over our everyday lives and choices."
 
Lying About Benghazi Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2016
Why would then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lie to the public and even to the families of slain Americans on the very day they and the nation received the coffins of those families' deceased loved ones?
 
More than Just a Woman Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2015
"If Clinton were to face Fiorina in a general election, a stark contrast would be apparent on the issues, and not on Clinton's trump card--gender--as a fallback [since Clinton] cannot remove herself from her own history of corruption, abuse of power,…"
 
Mum's the Word Emily Ekins
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2020
"Self-censorship is widespread. . . . Staunch liberals are the only group who feel they can say what they believe. . . ."
 
Nation on the Take Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2016
How big money corrupts our democracy and what can be done about it.
 
National Popular Vote Looks to 2024 Steven A. Johnson
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2020
"The winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes was not created by the 1787 Constitutional Convention, is not contained in the Constitution, and is not mentioned in the Federalist Papers."
 
Nixon Could Keep a Secret Diana Klebanow
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2016
"Was is wrong for a prominent politicain to hide the fact that he fathered a child out of wedlock?"
 
Nixon's Righthand Man Makes Amends--or Tries to Diana Klebanow
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2014
"[John] Dean has worked very hard to erase the image of him as a villain, but it remains to be seen whether he really should be regarded as a hero."
 
Obama Moves to Weaponize the IRS Matt Barber
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2014
Once caught abusing his Executive authority to target the very citizens he has sworn to serve, even a nominally honorable man immediately would reverse course and resign, and accept the consequences of his illegal actions.
 
Obama's Fiscal Suicide
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: April 2012
 
ObamaCare Remains on the March Diana Klebanow
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2012
What may be a ray of sunshine for patients likely will burden a number of small companies with additional compliance rules and paperwork to the point of bankruptcy.
 
Pandemic Punishment Scott W. Atlas
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2021
". . .The freedom of Americans to seek and state what they believe to be the truth is at risk."
 
People of Faith Can Be the Answer Bill Haslam
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2021
"As our nation grows more polarized and people of faith fear the secularization of the country, this is the right time to consider what it looks like for Christians to be engaged in the public square."
 
Pointing Their Pens
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2015
The exhibition "allows for comparisons of the ways in which cartoonists react to and interpret current events, develop their own distinct visual vocabularies, and convey their diverse political opinions."
 
Pres. Obama Goes Over the Top on Affirmative Action James W. Thomson
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2009
". . . By nominating Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, [Pres. Barack] Obama committed the cardinal sin of identity politics: attempting to elevate people more for their gender and race rather than for individual merit or achievement."
 
President vs. Press Sophia A. Nelson
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2017
'…The free press today seems to be much more concerned with punditry, opining, and celebrity than bringing government abuse to light."
 
Profiles in Corruption Carolyn M. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2020
A best-selling author chronicles the abuse of power by America's progressive elite.
 
Propaganda, Inc. Marianne Clyde
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2018
Isn't it kind of strange "that, when there are several outlets covering the exact same incident, by tweaking a few words and adding or deleting certain details, the stories end up saying something totally different from each other"?
 
Proving the Polls Wrong Matt Niksa
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2019
"The researchers' analysis of the data -- two terabytes worth containing 70,000,000 websites -- shows exactly when and where voters made decisions that led to the election of Donald Trump."
 
Race to the Bottom? The Presidential Candidates' Positions on Trade Sallie James
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2008
"Only when the American people are free to exchange goods unimpeded by the often faulty judgment of politicians will freedom and prosperity prevail."
 
Really? Seriously? Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2018
Endless possibilities for impeachment range from a travel ban that risks radicalizing Muslims to Putin-style censorship of the media bolstered w/ Trump doublethink & alternative news, overt racism, & an ill-considered response to potenttial nuclear crises
 
Reforming the Electoral Count Act Thomas A. Berry
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2022
What if voters elect a dead guy?
 
Republicans Better at Picking a President
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: August 2008
 
Seeing Is Believing Alex Rudin
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2020
"It is critical to understand that the roots of culture stem from artistic movement. If creators dedicate themselves to exposing the truth, we can incite a social revolution. It has happened time and time again, and today, we are ripe for change. . ."
 
Seeking the Immigrant Vote David Bier
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2020
". . . Congressional Republicans have performed much better during periods when the immigrant share of the population is high. By contrast, Democrats dominate the low immigration periods."
 
State of the Disunion Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2012
". . . If the U.S. is to survive, recover, and prosper in the next half-decade, it must do so without [Pres. Barack] Obama, because it cannot do so with him."
 
Still Think the Election Wasn't Rigged? Mollie Hemingway
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2022
An army of progressive activists administered the 2020 presidential election at the ground level. Here, one billionaire in particular took a leading role: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
 
Testing Republican Resolve Henry Olsen , Dante Scala
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2016
"…The GOP contains four factions based primarily on ideology, with elements of class and religious background tempering that focus."
 
That Would Be a No-Vote for the Incumbent Bradford R. Kane
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2020
"[Pres. Donald Trump] continually demonstrates an authoritarian, narcissistic belief that the government is his personal tool to do with as he pleases. He erroneously conflates disloyalty to him with disloyalty to the country."
 
The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2017
"Democrats go forward like a regiment, in lockstep; instinctively, they close ranks to 'prevail in political battles.' [They] use deception to conceal their goals and believe moral principles and laws apply, not to them selves, but to others…"
 
The Blame Game Carolyn Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2022
Instead of considering the many ways life has improved during the last half-century, people listen to the unscrupulous politicians who promise to 'rescue' them from a nation that is more prosperous, peaceful, and healthier than it has ever been.
 
The Candidates Go to War Llewellyn D. Howell
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2008
The three main players in the race for president--especially Republican hopeful John McCain--really do not seem to understand the intricacies of the war in Iraq.
 
The Clinton Rule of Thumb Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2016
"If rules are inconvenient, [Hillary] violates or ignores them."
 
The Fix Is In--on Elections and COVID Marilyn M. Singleton
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2021
". . . The voting process was as purposefully obtuse as the inner workings of our 'health care system.' "
 
The Great Unraveling Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2017
"The measure of success for the Trump Administration hinges on rapid accomplishment of the President's campaign promises. Achieving those promises entails a great unraveling of all that was Obama."
 
The Left's Sorry Response to San Bernadino Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2016
"People do not become 'radicalized' any more than they become 'alcohol-ized' by someone else's behavior. They choose it--as [conservatives] angrily would assert in response to [liberals'] excuse-making obfuscation."
 
The Linking of the Russian President with Our Own Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2019
"[Russian Pres. Vladimir] Putin…deftly put his KGB skills to use in the political arena. Shortly after the 2016 election, he posted a photo of Donald Trump on Instagram and wrote, 'We won!' "
 
The Man Behind the Rise of Barack Obama Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2015
"The President presented [David] Axelrod with a book in which he had written, 'This book is a testament to our collaboration and how you have always been there to help me find my voice.'"
 
The Military's Vicious Vaccine Stance Elizabeth Lee Vliet
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2022
"If service members request a religious or medical exemption [to the COVID vaccine], they face extra duty, public humiliation, and threats of dishonorable discharge. If they talk about it, they risk career ending discipline."
 
The Obama vs. Clinton Sincerity Sweepstakes Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2008
" 'You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and place it in the navel of a flea, and still have room left for three caraway seeds and an agent's heart.' It is much the same in American politics."
 
The Pandemic Is the Opening Salvo Peter R. Breggin , Ginger Ross Breggin
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2022
"Why would the U.S. support the Chinese Communist biowarfare program by sharing advanced research and experimentation on making pandemic viruses?"
 
The Storm Before the Calm Carolyn Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2020
America's discord and the coming crisis of the 2020s will lead to . . .remarkably . . .the triumph beyond.
 
The Ultimate Squanderer Josh Bernstein
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2016
Hopeless and changeless--how Barack Obama wasted both terms of his historic presidency.
 
The Wave that Never Was Ken W. Good
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2021
"It would seem that a different kind of wave--not the blue one predicted--may have been forming all along, created by the winds of voter discontentment. On Election Day, it finally crested and reached shore."
 
Time to Stop the Plurality Aaron Hamlin
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2016
"…We are using a terrible method of voting to make critical decisions that affect the lives of millions of people."
 
Tricks of the Trade Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2018
While most people acknowledge Washington is dysfunctional because politicians curry favor with special interests & activitists on the left or right, it also is important to recognize the five key tricks politicians use to conceal what govt does to voters.
 
Trump Takes Up the Mantle of Old Hickory Thomas Chambers
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2017
"Time will reveal the final report card for the [Donald] Trump presidency, but [Andrew] Jackson may provide some hints."
 
Truth Be Told William Scott Magill
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2019
"Slavery may be the original sin of humanity, but not of the U.S. America's legacy is that of the most-rapid abolition of slavery of any country or people. Our slavery lasted one human lifetime."
 
Turning the Tables on Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2014
". . . The U.S. never can hope to regain its prosperity without restoring individual liberty and freedom of choice, and individual liberty and freedom of choice only can exist if the costly and burdensome Federal regulatory state is dismantled."
 
Uncovering What Ails Them Elizabeth Lee Vliet
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2018
As a prescription for what is making Washington toxic & dysfunctional, this physician suggests requiring politicians to release their medical records & disclose any medical or mental conditions for which they are being treated with prescription medicine.
 
Using COVID Fear to Divide and Rule
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: April 2021
 
Voting Season Ventures Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg
Category: Political Landscape Published: September 2015
"Those who are opposed to all negatism in political campaigning either yearn for insipidity or advantage, but not the rightfully vaunted marketplace of ideas to determine the best candidates."
 
When Rhetoric Wanders in Wacky Ways Richard E. Vatz
Category: Political Landscape Published: March 2017
"For months leading up to the election, it was difficult to find significant observers of the Democratic left who were excited by Clinton becoming president. In addition, it was nearly impossible to find responsible figures who defended Trump's attacks."
 
Where Do We Go from Here? Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2016
"A work of conscience and duty, Crisis Point sounds an alarms at a time that faith in government has fallen to an all-time low."
 
Which Party Is Better for the Economy?
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: December 2020
 
Why Trump Will Triumph Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2016
"[Voters] want a nation secured by impervious borders and a robust Second Amendment. [Donald] Trump champions those causes proudly--without qualification, apology, or politically correct language."
 
Will Government Be Willing to "Reel It In"?
News View Category: Political Landscape Published: April 2020
 
Words Have Meanings Helio Fred Garcia
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2020
"[Donald] Trump appears to be indifferent to the harm his rhetoric causes. He does not specifically intend it, but he does nothing to prevent the fact that he acts and speaks in ways that make the violence more likely."