Joe Dworetzky

In a blink of an eye, it was over. For a minute there, it seemed like the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was going to consume us. Now, just a few weeks later, we have moved on. According to Google Trends, however significant the 2023 bank crisis…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell finally won his war. No, not the fight against inflation, which has been front page news for months now. That battle has certainly been on Powell’s mind; but behind the scenes, a different war has been raging for…

Barry Goldwater and Kevin Phillips saw this moment coming decades ago. Iconic figures in the history of the modern conservative movement, they each warned of what lay in our future should conservative Christians come to dominate the Republican Party.…

Just a few weeks ago, it seemed inconceivable that Russia would invade Ukraine. This is the 21st century after all, and invading another sovereign country seems like such an antiquated approach to conflict resolution. And after all, what was the…

If Democrats have a strategy, it has not been easy to discern. It has been a year since the run-off elections in Georgia left the country with a 50–50 split in the Senate. As the 2020 election approached, the possibility that Democrats had a chance…

Our 20 year war in Afghanistan had barely ended and the foreign policy press was rife with articles banging the drums about the wars to come in East Asia. The casus belli — the instigating factors for the war with China that apparently lies…

For many Democrats, the morning after Election Day last November was met less with excitement over the prospect of a new progressive era than the relief of knowing that the Trump presidency was going to come to an end. Joe Biden offered the prospect…

“Victory has 100 fathers,” President John F. Kennedy observed in the wake of the United States’ failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs a half-century ago, “and defeat is an orphan.” Within hours of images of Afghans clinging to the landing gear…

“Tell you what Mr. American Airlines,” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick bellowed several weeks ago, after American Airlines and a hundred or so other major corporations pushed back against voter suppression legislation being pursued by Republican…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy looked in the mirror this week, and the face of Preston Brooks stared back at him. It was 165 years ago next month, in one of the defining political moments in the lead-up to the Civil War, that the pro-slavery…

After her father’s diagnosis with Covid-19, Caroline Brooks vented her frustration on Twitter. “Wearing a mask is a non-partisan issue. The advice of medical experts shouldn’t be politicized. My father ignored medical expertise and now he has COVID.…

Almost a half-century ago, Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff decried police violence from the podium at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. “And with George McGovern as president of the United States, we wouldn’t have to have Gestapo tactics in…

I was afraid that the moment had come; age had beaten me down and I had become a curmudgeon. When a New York Times story the other day read “Activists in San Francisco last week toppled a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, the former president who led the…

Erick Erickson, a leading voice of the American conservative movement, lashed out last week at the protesters who have pushed states across the country to relax pandemic-induced restrictions. “When,” he wrote, “did the conservative movement get…

Donald Trump has decided to move on. It has been barely eight weeks since the weekend in the middle of March when he decided to put his coronavirus-denial days behind him and embrace the role of a Wartime President, but apparently he has had enough.…

I wake up in the middle of the night most nights these days. I have to imagine that is true for many Americans. Pandemic anxiety. Must be great for the sales of anti-anxiety meds. It is not the course of the disease that worries me, as much as the…

If Michael Bloomberg’s intention was to derail the nomination of Bernie Sanders and prevent the reelection of Donald Trump, he may have achieved exactly the opposite. Perhaps, had Bloomberg entered the race earlier — competed along with the rest of…

It was his first victory lap; a harbinger of many to come. Donald Trump celebrated on the South Lawn of the White House as the Senate rejected witnesses at his impeachment trial this week, and a speedy end looms. The ostensible purpose for the event…

Perhaps nothing epitomizes the other-worldliness of the political moment more than folks on the left cheering John Bolton on. Bolton is the man who never saw a war he didn’t like. He is the living embodiment of the neoconservative moment; that time…

A participant at a recent LGBT+ forum posed a question to Elizabeth Warren. “Let’s say you’re on the campaign trail,” the questioner asked, “and a supporter approaches you and says ‘Senator, I’m old fashioned and my faith teaches me that marriage is…