JEFF COLVIN AUGUST 26, 2021

We live in an advanced, developed democracy with a 21st century economy, technology, and social structure, but an 18th century political structure. Our U.S. Constitution — — adopted as the supreme law of the land in 1789 — — was originally constructed to protect the political and economic power of the slave owners. There are three ways the Constitution did this, and we have since fixed only two of them…

JEFF COLVIN March 10, 2022

Not a week goes by now without some new revelation coming out of the special bi-partisan Congressional committee investigating the origins of the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building by Trump supporters on January 6 last year. It should be crystal clear to everyone now that this attack was aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 Presidential election, provoked and instigated by former President Trump himself by his continual promotion of the…

JEFF COLVIN April 15, 2022

I am having a serious attack of cognitive dissonance. It stems from listening to Republican calls to support Ukraine, while at the same time they continue to parrot Russian disinformation about Ukrainian and U.S. democracy. I address in this column three myths Republicans are spreading about Ukraine, but first let’s review the key happenings of the past decade that have led Ukraine into its current war with Russia…