Alex MollohanThe Siren Song of New MediaThe internet is truly a marvel of communication technology. Not since the invention of the movable type printing press over five centuries…Dec 14, 2016Dec 14, 2016
Alex MollohanPast Meets FutureDonald Trump’s victory last month was a generational triumph, the largest and most resounding victory for the right since the election of…Dec 7, 2016Dec 7, 2016
Alex MollohanFrom Jerusalem to ColumbusIn November 2014, two Palestinian men from entered an Orthodox Jewish Synagogue in Jerusalem and hacked four men at prayer to death. This…Nov 30, 2016Nov 30, 2016
Alex MollohanUna Nueva EraLast Friday, Fidel Castro died at the age of ninety. Polarizing as he was, it is hard to deny that Castro was a figure of tremendous…Nov 29, 2016Nov 29, 2016
Alex MollohanThe Mask SlipsAt 3:30 today, Donald Trump tweeted, with zero evidence whatsoever to back his claim up, that his deficit in the popular vote was the…Nov 28, 2016Nov 28, 2016
Alex MollohanThe Inescapable QuagmireThe Middle East contains Earth’s largest oil reserves, houses the holy sites of the Abrahamic faiths, and sits at the center of the…Nov 23, 2016Nov 23, 2016
Alex MollohanOld World, New RulesUnless America is at war, foreign policy tends to be fairly boring. The distance between the parties is minimal, with far more consensus…Nov 21, 2016Nov 21, 2016
Alex MollohanMake America 1986 AgainDuring the two terms of President Obama, liberals fell into the comfortable mindset that social progress could only go forward. While Obama…Nov 20, 2016Nov 20, 2016
Alex MollohanA Big Beautiful WallIn the aftermath of their 2012 electoral defeat, top Republican strategists met to perform a postmortem on the Romney candidacy. They…Nov 17, 2016Nov 17, 2016
Alex MollohanThe Rise and Fall of Post-Racial AmericaAt the end of the Civil Rights Movement in the late sixties and early seventies, many Americans, White and Black, feared the worst. It was…Nov 16, 2016Nov 16, 2016