There are five stages to a democratic process. Undermining any one undermines the whole. 1. Registration. Can voters, candidates and parties register without undue restrictions, and are accurate reco… (View Post)

Russia very rarely loses wars on the battlefield. Much more often, it loses them on the home front. That has to be Ukraine's grand strategy here too. The Kremlin is overheating its economy because of… (View Post)

Yeah. We don't know. However, after a lot of flailing, Trump has finally found an effective attack-line on Harris and she's failed to articulate an effective critique, set of solutions and answer to … (View Post)

I think that's too complacent. There are strong echos in this race of 2016. Trump, despite being a member of the inherited super-rich is seen as a man of the people whereas Harris, despite a more mod… (View Post)

The American political system has many serious structural problems but maybe the biggest is its sheer cost - a point which is almost never addressed and taken by those there as simply a law of nature… (View Post)