Eric Kuhn

Debates on immigration policy or agriculture should be undertaken by people who have a clue, or who have a connection to someone with a clue.

If you’re a Jew, anti-Semitism you run into is the worst. Similarly, if you’re a legislator in a democracy and you have to deal with people who are committed to ending that democracy, that has to be just about the worst, too. 

Was the police behavior that resulted in Tyre Nichol’s death the result of how the police who killed him were trained?

Loathed by most people but loved by a sizable minority, Alex Jones’ commercialized cruelty beggars belief.

Democrats can hopefully get over the Clintonian idea that they need to style themselves as kinda-sorta Republicans in order to win.

The homeless are in dire need of personal protection on a day-to-day basis and are unlikely to have spare cash for a gun, being the half-million most destitute Americans. If the Second Amendment applies to them, they need welfare guns. Let’s make it happen!

If we disallow lying in the interrogation room, what’s next? Disallow it on the campaign trail? On cable news? This will threaten our whole way of life!

The Arab Spring was an epic fail; democracy, openness and good governance did not sweep the middle east or north Africa. One of the worst results was in Syria, where the protest movement became a civil war that was eventually won by the bad guys. The Assad regime, which had been merely oppressive, rose to […]

Lately, we have experienced a series of “bomb threats.” There has been a rash of them targeting historically Black colleges and universities during February.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. I propose a fourth category.

The science-will-save-us thing has worn a little thin. The hot trend in climate-netting is back-to-nature- specifically, planting trees.

How is it that the withdrawal of so small a contingent of American soldiers — some 2,500– caused the tide to turn so quickly in Afghanistan?

The race is on to exfiltrate the Afghans who helped us fight the Taliban, now that our 20-year effort to re-invent Afghanistan has ended. It’s a race, because if the Taliban finds and identifies them in Afghanistan, their throats will be slit.

Long before spreading falsehood online became a career opportunity and a political strategy, many many people believed falsities and disbelieved truths. Even so, there is one perennially asserted and believed untruth about American politics that puzzles me.