A blog by Harry J. Burke
House Democrats passed their next coronavirus stimulus package over 2 months ago. The Republican Senate got around to it last week. If that was all I knew about the negotiations between them and the Trump White House that would be enough. But of course, there’s more: the Republican Party’s proposal is wanting and emphasizes issues […]
If you’ve scrolled through a news feed over the last month, you’ve undoubtedly seen stories and op-eds about the growing statue wars. Throughout America and the world, statues – of mostly white men – are being reexamined by a younger and more diverse generation. People are questioning whether George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or even Abraham […]
For months now, Americans have taken to the streets to protest the police killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and many others. They’ve marched for better policing and defunding of police departments to reinvest that money into health and social services. And police departments have responded with extreme violence – using pepper spray, […]
The small states – and by extension the GOP – have outsized power in American institutions
In 1968, Richard Nixon used a nifty slogan that Donald Trump is desperate to revive: the silent majority. There was a powerful message behind it that resonated with white America, racist undertones aside. What Nixon was saying was that their safety, peace of mind, and power would be restored if he became president. But what […]
The GOP’s small-government orthodoxy is the worst remedy for a response to the coronavirus. The Republicans have lost the debate over the role government should play in people’s lives, and the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated that demise. For decades, GOP logic has gone something like this: It’s a convenient self-fulfilling prophecy, but the coronavirus pandemic […]
he media is not to blame here, but they can do more to stop the spread of dangerous misinformation coming from the president. He just implied a treatment for COVAID is to drink bleach.
The first night of round two is over for the Democratic debates. Candidates and moderators touched on important issues Democrats are grappling with like Medicare-for-all and illegal immigration. It is too early to say of course who won or lost this debate, you can’t determine that right afterwards based off of who had the best […]
This will be a short post as compared to past writings where I’ve tried to build longer arguments about more complicated topics. My argument here is much simpler: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Bernie Sander’s ‘brand’ of socialism is not the same as Nicolas Maduro or Hugo Chavez’s full-blown socialist dictatorships. Donald Trump and the Republican […]
I know several people, as I’m sure you do as well, who claim the label of being socially liberal and fiscally conservative. A growing majority of Americans believe that the rest of the country reflects these preferences. While it isn’t clear why exactly that is, I believe moderate voters want to take what they see […]