San Francisco and Georgia have sent America a message. It’s time for Washington to pay attention. For years, pundits have been beating drums designed to tell us that the woke left and Trumpian right are irreversibly ascendant in American politics. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider. Just recently, responding to a spike in street crime, voters […]
If we don’t stop single-issue advocacy, we risk losing democracy altogether
[Read the original article on The Fulcrum] My friends have it wrong. I recently reached out to many of them about an effort to combat the intentional efforts by “Big Lie” candidates to take over nonpartisan election positions in key states where, had they been in place, the 2020 election may have gone to Donald […]
My Summer Reading List
NON-FICTION The Code Breaker, Walter IsaacsonHow Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them, Barbara F. WalterThe Federalist Papers, a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay FICTION Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak BIBLIOGRAPHY The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power, Max Chafkin
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future
The extremism of both Parties is the real threat. And the only solution is for those of us in the middle—the “exhausted majority”—to rise up and push back on these divisive forces.
Nathan Hochman for CA Attorney General
On March 15th, we hosted a little get together to learn more about Nathan Hochman, candidate for CA Attorney General. His thorough presentation made it clear that Nathan has the right breadth of legal and government experience that’s needed for this position and much more than both the incumbent and the other challengers. Nathan regularly […]
To What Degree Is Poverty a Systemic Problem?
The two books I chose to read recently—Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance, and Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn—deal with the same cultural trend in America and both pose a question that divides American politics: to what degree is poverty a structural and […]
MARTHA’S READING LIST
Books that I’m reading… NON-FICTION Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, Martin Gurri Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Anne Case & Angus Deaton Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, Nicholas D. Kristof and […]