by Stephen Wing | Aug 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hello, old friend! Thank you again for your warm hospitality, and for sharing your thoughts on some issues that divide us and so many others. Sadly, conversations like that are all too rare. I appreciated your honesty and openness, and left the next day with much to...
by Stephen Wing | May 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Federal Election Campaign Act outlaws campaign contributions from foreigners. But since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling opened the floodgates to unlimited anonymous “dark money,” how can that rule be enforced? No one knows how many rubles the...
by Stephen Wing | Apr 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
The autocrats, plutocrats, theocrats, kleptocrats and other sworn enemies of democracy, both foreign and domestic, have joined forces in an all-out offensive. We have no choice but to do the same. Angry voters have driven Congressional Republicans into hiding. A...
by Stephen Wing | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Here I am in Asheville, five months after Hurricane Helene ravaged my favorite city, finally getting away for a few days to join the ongoing relief efforts of my friends at Grassroots AID Partnership. Unfortunately, I haven’t missed my chance to help out. But that’s...
by Stephen Wing | Feb 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our would-be dictator rode into office on a wave of rebellion, backed by millions of fanatical fellow rebels. It’s not surprising that so many were fooled by such a consummate con artist. But even the MAGA hardcore may wake up sooner or later to the magnitude of the...
by Stephen Wing | Jan 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence,” Samuel Huntington stated bluntly in The Clash of Civilizations & the Remaking of World Order. “Westerners often forget...
