Hillary ClintonJames Comey Is A National DisgraceIf the former FBI director wants so desperately to be seen as a stand-up guy, writes Steve Almond, he should apologize for his gross misjudgments. Then he should be quiet.CognoscentiApr 10, 2018Did The Media Or Voters Wreck American Politics?Don’t blame the 2016 election on the mainstream media, writes Rich Barlow. Blame the real culprits behind civic ignorance: the voters themselves.CognoscentiDec 14, 2017Donna Brazile's DNC Exposé: A Reckoning For Democrats?Today’s DNC leadership needs to deal with this scandal quickly, transparently and sincerely, writes Miles Howard.CognoscentiNov 3, 2017What If Hillary Clinton Were The Accused?An extended thought experiment constructed for those who still believe the president didn’t collude with Russia.CognoscentiNov 1, 2017The Impossibility Of Being Hillary ClintonWhat’s happening to Clinton’s new campaign book is exactly what happened to her campaign, writes Steve Almond. CognoscentiSep 19, 2017The Electoral College Was Born In Racism. Let’s Drop OutInvented in part to coddle slave-holding southern states, it’s past time to abolish the 18th century artifact we call the Electoral College.CognoscentiDec 30, 2016Sorry, Haters: However Improbably, Donald Trump Is ThrivingAnd so begins the “normalization” of what many thought could never be normal, writes Tom Keane. CognoscentiDec 21, 2016A Way Out For Donald Trump? A Letter To The President-ElectAlexander Keyssar makes the case that there is still time for Trump to back out of a job he never really wanted in the first place, and to become a...CognoscentiDec 7, 2016A Recount Won't Change The Election Outcome, But Here's Why It's Still ImportantFailing to get to the bottom of the rigged election rumors make it too easy to dismiss 2016 as a fluke, writes Tim Snyder. CognoscentiNov 30, 2016'We Want The World And We Want It Now': The Hot Glow Of Art In Post-Election AmericaPolitical movements grow through the press of bodies and the melding of voices in songs and poetry, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. CognoscentiNov 21, 2016How Can I Go Home For Thanksgiving After The Election?A devastated Hillary Clinton supporter ponders whether to head home to her Donald Trump-loving kin.CognoscentiNov 21, 2016Racial Resentment, Not Economics, Elected TrumpIt appears that that racial discomfort on the part of Trump supporters may be more widespread than pre-election polls suggested, writes Rich Barlow. CognoscentiNov 14, 2016Hillary Clinton Is The 22nd Amendment's Latest CasualtyIn losing the election, writes James Davitt Rooney, Hillary Clinton has become the seventh of eight nominees unable to win a third term for his or her party since 1951,...CognoscentiNov 11, 2016Trump Wins The Presidency, If Not Our TrustWhich Donald Trump should we believe, asks Susan E. Reed. The one whose words were filled with bigotry and misogyny, or the one who now wants us to trust him?CognoscentiNov 10, 2016Poem: Trump, UnfurledCognoscenti's poet of the political scene, Erika Fine, reflects, in verse, on the stunning outcome of the election.CognoscentiNov 9, 2016This Is Not The Piece I Intended To WriteCloe Axelson planned to write about suffragette white and pantsuits and shattered glass ceilings. America had other ideas. CognoscentiNov 9, 2016This Is What We Do NowAt this wipe-off-the-chalkboard moment, writes Joanna Weiss, we can start by thinking the worst of people, or we can start by thinking the best of people.CognoscentiNov 9, 2016Election Day Abstinence: A Coward's Way OutBy not voting for anyone for president, writes Tom Keane, Gov. Baker helps Trump -- and hurts democracy.CognoscentiNov 8, 2016Decision 2016, And The Morning After In AmericaRest assured, neither outcome will be a triumph of democracy or the end of it.CognoscentiNov 8, 2016Enough With The Emails, Etc. Let's Talk About The Real Issues Facing AmericaLet us turn away from the polls, the insults and scandal-mongering, and consider a few of the very real policy issues at stake.CognoscentiNov 7, 2016Next Page
James Comey Is A National DisgraceIf the former FBI director wants so desperately to be seen as a stand-up guy, writes Steve Almond, he should apologize for his gross misjudgments. Then he should be quiet.CognoscentiApr 10, 2018
Did The Media Or Voters Wreck American Politics?Don’t blame the 2016 election on the mainstream media, writes Rich Barlow. Blame the real culprits behind civic ignorance: the voters themselves.CognoscentiDec 14, 2017
Donna Brazile's DNC Exposé: A Reckoning For Democrats?Today’s DNC leadership needs to deal with this scandal quickly, transparently and sincerely, writes Miles Howard.CognoscentiNov 3, 2017
What If Hillary Clinton Were The Accused?An extended thought experiment constructed for those who still believe the president didn’t collude with Russia.CognoscentiNov 1, 2017
The Impossibility Of Being Hillary ClintonWhat’s happening to Clinton’s new campaign book is exactly what happened to her campaign, writes Steve Almond. CognoscentiSep 19, 2017
The Electoral College Was Born In Racism. Let’s Drop OutInvented in part to coddle slave-holding southern states, it’s past time to abolish the 18th century artifact we call the Electoral College.CognoscentiDec 30, 2016
Sorry, Haters: However Improbably, Donald Trump Is ThrivingAnd so begins the “normalization” of what many thought could never be normal, writes Tom Keane. CognoscentiDec 21, 2016
A Way Out For Donald Trump? A Letter To The President-ElectAlexander Keyssar makes the case that there is still time for Trump to back out of a job he never really wanted in the first place, and to become a...CognoscentiDec 7, 2016
A Recount Won't Change The Election Outcome, But Here's Why It's Still ImportantFailing to get to the bottom of the rigged election rumors make it too easy to dismiss 2016 as a fluke, writes Tim Snyder. CognoscentiNov 30, 2016
'We Want The World And We Want It Now': The Hot Glow Of Art In Post-Election AmericaPolitical movements grow through the press of bodies and the melding of voices in songs and poetry, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. CognoscentiNov 21, 2016
How Can I Go Home For Thanksgiving After The Election?A devastated Hillary Clinton supporter ponders whether to head home to her Donald Trump-loving kin.CognoscentiNov 21, 2016
Racial Resentment, Not Economics, Elected TrumpIt appears that that racial discomfort on the part of Trump supporters may be more widespread than pre-election polls suggested, writes Rich Barlow. CognoscentiNov 14, 2016
Hillary Clinton Is The 22nd Amendment's Latest CasualtyIn losing the election, writes James Davitt Rooney, Hillary Clinton has become the seventh of eight nominees unable to win a third term for his or her party since 1951,...CognoscentiNov 11, 2016
Trump Wins The Presidency, If Not Our TrustWhich Donald Trump should we believe, asks Susan E. Reed. The one whose words were filled with bigotry and misogyny, or the one who now wants us to trust him?CognoscentiNov 10, 2016
Poem: Trump, UnfurledCognoscenti's poet of the political scene, Erika Fine, reflects, in verse, on the stunning outcome of the election.CognoscentiNov 9, 2016
This Is Not The Piece I Intended To WriteCloe Axelson planned to write about suffragette white and pantsuits and shattered glass ceilings. America had other ideas. CognoscentiNov 9, 2016
This Is What We Do NowAt this wipe-off-the-chalkboard moment, writes Joanna Weiss, we can start by thinking the worst of people, or we can start by thinking the best of people.CognoscentiNov 9, 2016
Election Day Abstinence: A Coward's Way OutBy not voting for anyone for president, writes Tom Keane, Gov. Baker helps Trump -- and hurts democracy.CognoscentiNov 8, 2016
Decision 2016, And The Morning After In AmericaRest assured, neither outcome will be a triumph of democracy or the end of it.CognoscentiNov 8, 2016
Enough With The Emails, Etc. Let's Talk About The Real Issues Facing AmericaLet us turn away from the polls, the insults and scandal-mongering, and consider a few of the very real policy issues at stake.CognoscentiNov 7, 2016
