Immigration in America: A Mini-Course

I've posted a 10-part mini-course on immigration to my Substack. "Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Is Historic. And ignorant, against U.S. interests. Can we break with the past?" is part one, which has been e-mailed to subscribers. Click. It begins with a link to a NYT series on new state laws in 10 states restricting Chinese nationals from purchasing …

Israel-Hamas War At 8 Months: Disastrous

On May 7, 2024 the war between Israel and Hamas begins its eighth month. Some 1,200 Israelis were murdered by 1,000 Hamas operatives on October 7, 2023. In the seven months since then, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. Among them, according to the Israeli Defense Force, were 11,000 Hamas soldiers, along …

Abortion As A Divisive Issue Can End

The American people clearly favor choice and abortion rights, not bans. In every state, including conservative ones, where abortion has been on the ballot, choice has won and bans have lost. Consensus is emerging in state referenda. There may be dozens more in 2024. Should Congress fully restore abortion rights by a simple narrow majority …

Lies, Hyper-Partisanship, Double Standards, and Hypocrisy: Trump’s Hush-Money Trial

My Substack e-newsletter is on Donald Trump's hush-money trial, placed in historical context. Some of the same players were involved in the impeachment of Bill Clinton in the 1990s and the hush-money trial of Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), who ran for president in 2007 and early 2008. Except this time, they seem to be advocating …

A Historical View of the ‘Deep State’ Since the 1950s

My Substack e-newsletter examines claims by both the right and the left that a "deep state" controls American government. I examine conspiratorial views of government workers since the 1950s, from communists supposedly infiltrating the U.S. government to defense workers conspiring with contractors to profit from "forever wars" in the 1960s and 1970s, to Donald Trump's …

Women’s History: What We Weren’t Taught

March is Women's History Month, first proclaimed by Congress in 1987. Those of us who graduated high school before then, and many who graduated afterwards, were not properly educated in the historical  contributions women have made. I discuss this in my Substack e-newsletter, and efforts to learn in later life what we didn't learn in …

Not A Single Vote Will Change Over Ages of Biden Or Trump

Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944 set the standard. In my e-newsletter, I observe Joe Biden's comeback, with a strong State of the Union address, clearance of criminal behavior for withholding classified documents, and revelations that his faulty memory was greatly exaggerated by the media and manufactured a political crisis. Polls show Biden and …

Black History and Cultural Literacy: So Much We Still Don’t Know

Today is the last day of Black History Month, but of course, it’s impossible to consume all we need to know for cultural literacy in one month. I’ve created a 25-post mini-course on Google Classroom for paying subscribers, just $5 a month. If you want access, click here to subscribe. We can glimpse what the …

How Biden and the Dems Can Lose the 2024 Election

Joe Biden and the Democrats should start running scared right now. The fundamentals — a strong economy, and significant legislative accomplishment — are good. But Biden’s popularity is too low. People — even Democrats — think he is too darned old. He’s losing key swing states to Trump. Working-class African American and Latino voters, especially …

Five-Alarm Fire For Biden and the Democrats

https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/a-five-alarm-fire-for-biden-and-the