Politics Is Not Governance
Sorry for not having a blog post this week, but thought you might like to read my Op Ed piece from Monday's Baltimore Sun. Read the post...
What's The Electoral College and Why Do We Have It?
The Electoral College is what we call the group of people who actually choose the President of the United States. The presidential...
Children Are Watching
I remember the first time I watched political conventions on TV. It was the summer of 1964 and I was 9 years old. That year the...
Let's All Play Ball
I have a good buddy who's a huge baseball fan. A real purist. He loves the game for the love of the game. Back in the early 1980's, when...
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...