Ricky Chandler100 Days — Until Re-Election?100 days. The election is in 100 days. 100 days until repudiation of this despot, the worst President ever. It might not be the end of his…Jul 26, 2020Jul 26, 2020
Ricky ChandlerAmerica, as viewed from the First WorldDateline — the Banana Republic of the United States of AmericaJul 23, 2020Jul 23, 2020
Ricky ChandlerThe Past is Prologue: How the Democratic Primary Unfolds From HereLess than 60 days to the first Democratic primary voting, the race is very much in flux.Dec 18, 2019Dec 18, 2019
Ricky ChandlerThe racist lie that has upended the race for the Democratic nominationStop me if you’ve heard this one — in 2016, disaffected working class whites across the country, and particularly in the upper Midwest…Oct 20, 2019Oct 20, 2019
Ricky ChandlerJoe Biden is not going to winThere are a lot of Democrats who don’t want Elizabeth Warren to be the nominee, either because they think she’s too far left, or because…Sep 17, 2019Sep 17, 2019
Ricky ChandlerThis Fourth of July, ForwardThere is a reason that our greatest poet of the 19th century could write with such resonance (even as our greatest poet of the 20th…Jul 4, 2019Jul 4, 2019
Ricky ChandlerWhy Kamala Harris should pick Mitt Romney as her running mate in 2020Mitt Romney made quite a stir a couple weeks ago when he took to the pages of the Washington Post to criticize the character of the…Jan 17, 2019Jan 17, 2019
Ricky ChandlerThe Best TV of 2018Is The Good Place illuminating the path to our country’s salvation?Dec 26, 2018Dec 26, 2018
Ricky ChandlerThe morning after: who can win the nomination in 2020?There are lots of post-mortems about the mid-terms, people trying to draw lessons from very narrow results. On further reflection, I think…Nov 7, 2018Nov 7, 2018
Ricky ChandlerSizing up the 2020 Democratic FieldAs I’ve said, Trump is likely on his way to cruising to re-election (https://bit.ly/2LhJsQl). But a more nuanced version of this must…Jul 15, 2018Jul 15, 2018