https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Beatles-01-Helter-Skelter-3442858.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSan Pedro Sula It seems forever ago when the use of facial identification software in detecting members of the crown prince’s security detail implicated them in the murder of Khashoggi, the dissident and journalist in the Saudi Arabian embassy office in Istanbul. I found the assassination frightening, …
Month: November 2018
Calculating the Prospects for Change
Houston It’s still difficult to fully assess the election and its lessons, but some patterns continue to emerge in bits and pieces. A text from Houston after the midterms underlined the hopes for Texas to move elsewhere along the color spectrum. Democrats picked up eleven state representative seats for example on the Beto O’Rourke coattails. …
Ballot Measures Reveal a Kinder and Gentler America
New Orleans The headline may be that the Senate is increasingly Republican, seeming to have picked up a couple of seats, and the House has seen the Democrats take control, picking up at least twenty-six seats, but that’s only part of the story. When we move from the partisan divisions to look at some of …