James Preston Allen

A Prophet for Change

And while we are on the topic of religion, and this is Easter and Passover, it may be time to…

7 months ago

Gutting the Kennedy Center

It’s the Bill of Rights’ guarantee of freedom of expression. Without that protection — that first of our freedoms —…

8 months ago

Talking Trade, Kool-Aid and Gaslighting ― A Barstool Debate on Tariffs, Robots, and Reality

The problem is that even though this is a kind of performative political theater, real consequences will come. It will…

9 months ago

Unified by a Common Enemy

What we are seeing today in reaction to the fires and the coup is that at our core the average…

9 months ago

Tyranny and Chaos

A free democratic nation cannot remain free without a free and unfettered press, the founding fathers warned. And yet we…

10 months ago

From Fiction to Reality

Yet, Jan. 20, 2025 was presaged by a long-forgotten 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel called, It Can’t Happen Here. And now…

10 months ago

The Irony of the New Year

The true irony of these recent events is that we’ve lived through the same kinds of betrayals of democracy for…

11 months ago

Reflections on 45 Years

Remember that freedom in every era takes eternal vigilance and that is what honest, truthful and diligent reporting needs to…

11 months ago

Post-Election Blue Thanksgiving

The seeds for economic and social chaos are now being sown even before he takes office and the bitter harvest…

12 months ago

Now it will get even more weird and scary

I think the slim majority who voted against Harris doesn’t really believe that Trump will do what he says he’ll…

12 months ago