Harlan Ullman

Has America hit political bottom? The Supreme Court may have demonstrated that there is no bottom to which America can descend. The 303 Creative v Elenis ruling just might do that. But here is the broader context. Last week’s column observed that a former president has been twice indicted and faces more charges for committing […]

The only explanation for the extraordinary events transfixing, transforming and disrupting global politics today must come from “Alice in Wonderland.” Otherwise, no work of fiction would be seen as credible in describing them. Instead, Alice’s mirror has ensnared Earth. The planet has fallen not into Wonderland but into Dunderland. Let us begin this review with […]

London, England: To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “Never in the course of human events have a British Prime Minister and an American President concurrently faced charges of committing high crimes and misdemeanours.” In Britain, former PM Boris Johnson, fined for violating a Covid law prohibiting large public gatherings and holding a drinks party, resigned his seat […]

London, England: Because of Covid, this was my first trip out of the country since the pandemic ended. Seeing many old friends and colleagues as well as associates again, is an elixir for expanding one’s horizons. The good news follows below. The not so good news was the diminished and even sour views sadly held […]

For presidents who are not prepared to disregard truth, fact and reality, press conferences are potential nightmares. That may be one reason why President Joe Biden has been reluctant to subject himself to only occasional formal sessions with the media. But the public still needs to understand how the president and his administration will respond […]

Not for the first time both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are playing political Russian Roulette. Except, this time, all six chambers are loaded with bullets. And it will be America that is the victim. The issue is the debt ceiling. And, in fairness, if American politics and governance were rational, the collision between what should […]

Has the current state of American politics banished or abandoned common sense? Or, worse, have Americans banished or abandoned common sense in what is expected from their government and even from basic citizenship? This should be intolerable. It is not. Last week was filled with examples of the absence of common sense. The first was […]

Tens of millions of Americans will watch the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III on Saturday. Despite George III and the American Revolution, Americans have been infatuated with British royalty. But being a royal is not easy in what has been a sometimes often tragic and recurring history of a darker side that has plagued […]

The record of American interventions in Vietnam in 1964; Afghanistan in 2001; and Iraq in 2003 is one of failure. Given that many in the US Congress regard China as an “existential threat,” is the US at risk of making similar errors and mistakes in judgment extending across several administrations that will end in future […]

The national motto of E PLURIBUS UNUM is “From Many, One,” denoting how the separate thirteen colonies were bound into one nation. Yet, the fierce divisions today from abortion to zoonotic transmission of Covid-19, if unchecked, could reverse E PLURIBUS UNUM into E UNUM PLURIBUS for “From One, Many.” Huge divisions always existed from 1775 […]