The Babcock Ranch community near Ft Meyers shows building a resilient and low-carbon America will save both money and lives. We need to start now. The media is all over the story that Governor DeSantis was notified that the danger threshold for evacuation was hit on Sunday, but he waited until Tuesday to order one (leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake). But there’s another story out of Florida — a good…

Returning manufacturing to our nation is the most important step we can take to balance China’s growing influence and power, both economic, military and political Rebuilding from Hurricane Ian will require a lot of construction materials, from sheetrock to electrical systems to plumbing fixtures. Much of it will come from China. …

If we want to get crime under control and restore social cohesion to our society, we must also tackle inequality — and that means taxing the morbidly rich Monday I wrote to you about how Democrats must engage with the topic of crime; that same day the Washington Post documented how the GOP intends to use crime as their major wedge issue in this November’s election. But the conversation does us a disservice if it’s limited to crime…

How the science of the Big Lie & propaganda works to the GOP’s advantage Donald Trump is still insisting he won the 2020 election, despite having lost by about 7 million votes and being wiped out in the Electoral College. Science, it turns out, is on his side. Not the science of elections: the science of propaganda. New findings from psychologists at universities in…

The headline/subhead for the top story in today’s Washington Post is: “GOP strategy elevates clashes over crime, race in midterm battlegrounds “Republicans are increasingly centering their pitch to voters in the midterms on crime, prompting growing accusations of racism from some Democrats, but also worries that the attacks could resonate” …

So much money is sloshing around in our political system that honest politicians are buried and actual criminals are stepping up Republicans in the Senate yesterday killed legislation passed through the House that would require “dark money” to be publicly disclosed: not a single Republican voted for it, although every Democrat in attendance did. Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition, we learned Wednesday, is going to spend $42 million on the…

Donald Trump has built a cult around himself. This is dangerous to America and dangerous to democracy. Cults of personality in governance are broadly incompatible with democracy. They usually erupt in dictatorships where the Great Leader’s face and sayings are splashed all over public places. Think Mao’s China, Stalin’s USSR…

Voting for Republicans is, tragically, voting against America — It’s really just that simple Last week a very reasonable sounding fellow called into my show and said, essentially, “I voted twice for Trump and would again. Why do you think I’m a threat to America?” We ended up debating tax policy and I never did fully answer his question (I’m a sucker for “reasonable”)…

Editorials in America’s major newspapers are shocked — shocked, I tell you! — that DeSantis and Abbott would exploit asylum-seekers to rack up votes from their racist base. Whatever happened to government being the power that helped people, they want to know? But it was entirely predictable. …