Current Issues in Our Country
Rex C. Mitchell, Ph.D.

This page has links to some writing dealing with important current issues in our country - first, some of mine, then of others.

✦ Supreme Injustice: Bush v. Gore (2000) (RCM, 2018)

✦ Our Supremely Divided Court (RCM, 2018)

✦ Is It Always Right to be Right? (RCM, 2018)

✦ Immigration Realities (RCM, 2018)

✦ Who Pays for Tariffs & Trade Restrictions (Forbes, 2019)

✦ How Can We Have Good Facts About News and Current Events (RCM, 2020)

✦ Voter Suppression & Voter Fraud (RCM, 2020)

✦ Why Are Political/Social Discussions So Difficult (RCM, 2021)

✦ Politics With Integrity (RCM, 2021)


✦ The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - notes from book by Jonathan Haidt (2012)

✦ How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans - notes from book by Mickey Edwards (2012)

✦ How to Build an Autocracy (David Frumm, 2017)

✦ Tribalism (Andrew Sullivan, 2017)

✦ Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump - notes from book by Allen Frances, MD (2017)

✦ Is Trump Mentally Fit to Run the Country? (Prudence Gourguechon, M.D, June 2017)

✦ The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: Notes from book by 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts (2017)

✦ Will Trump Destroy the Presidency? (Jack Goldsmith, Oct 2017)

✦ How Democracies Die - notes from book by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (2018)

✦ To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism - notes from book by Rob Riemen (2018)

✦ The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It - notes from book by Yascha Mounk (2018)

✦ The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels - notes from book by Jon Meacham (2018)

✦ How My Generation Broke America (Time, 2018)

✦ The Plot Against America - actions by Paul Manafort (The Atlantic, 2018)

✦ Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now (Andrew Sullivan, 2018)

✦ Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump - notes from book by Michael Isikoff & David Corn (2018)

✦ Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic - notes from book by David Frumm (2018)

✦ A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership - notes from book by James Comey (2018)

✦ Fear: Trump in the White House - notes from book by Bob Woodward (2018)

✦ Orwell's Unheeded Warning -The Atlantic (2019)

✦ Impeach Donald Trump - Benefits of impeachment process independent of the outcome (The Atlantic, March 2019)

✦ Oil Industry & Russian Interference in 2016 Election (Notes from Blowout, a book by Rachel Maddow, 2019)

✦ Four threats: The recurring crises of American democracy (Notes from a book by Suzanne Mettler & Robert Lieberman, 2020)

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