Of Blackish, Political Discourse, Lemons, and Lemonade
I've told my kids for as long as I can remember that when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. So watching Blackish last night made me...
Bringing the Electoral College in Line With Reality
Here's my latest op ed in the Baltimore Sun. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-electoral-college-20161123-story.html
Come Together
Upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Ben Franklin famously said: "[W]e must all hang together or most assuredly we will...
Let Judges Do Their Jobs
The topics of states' rights, racism, and federal judges have been coming up a lot lately in the news and in social media, in a variety...
Friends to the End
The story is pretty well known. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the voice and the pen (respectively) of the American Revolution, two of...
What Would the Founding Fathers Do?
With Independence Day coming up, we often hear people talk about the Founding Fathers. That’s what we call the men (and because of gender...
Who Are the Political Parties and What Are They Fighting About?
If you’re a kid who is starting to learn about government, you are probably hearing a lot about “politics” and “politicians” and...
I Can Take It
I probably shouldn’t have called my first book, “How the U.S. Government Works.” I mean, I can’t begin to tell you how many times people...