Reality Check–AMERICA ALONE: Welcome to the New Age of Isolation, Apathy & Defeat James Campion January 15, 2020 Columns, Reality Check I’m not sure what you would call this Trump Doctrine. Is it foreign policy? Not sure it would make the cut of any “policy,” per se. Seems like most of this presidency’s maneuvers are knee-jerk, ad-hoc, half-as...
Reality Check– THE IRAN MISTAKE Forget Impeachment, Crimes, Lying, Stupidity & Sucking Up to Tyrants – This is the Worst Part of the Worst First Term James Campion January 8, 2020 Columns, Reality Check We are at the brink of war with Iran. The executive branch is at war with Congress. The Senate and the House are at war. A game show host is in charge of all this. Welcome to 2020. What a shock.&nb...
Rock Reads Year-End Edition: A Holiday Guide For The Rock & Roll Literate James Campion December 18, 2019 Reviews Looking for a celebration of music in words to stuff the stockings of the rock fan in your life? Well, look no further! Me – Elton John (2019) In the wake of this summer’s blockbuster biopic, Rocket Man ...
Reality Check–Readers’ Responses James Campion December 18, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Mr. Campion, I think what you have done in this column the past year or so is a valuable public service and it really culminates with this one. (GAME SHOW HOST + PRESIDENCY = IMPEACHMENT – Issue: 10/2/19) T...
Reality Check–NOT ALL REPUBLICANS ARE FOR TRUMP: Mass Exodus of GOP in Congress Tell a Different Tale James Campion December 11, 2019 Columns, Reality Check I have spent weeks hammering Republicans who have contorted their broken ideologies and done mind-bending about-faces on morality and Russia and free trade and exploding deficits and a ton of other apparently ...
Kid Sistr—One Stage at a Time James Campion November 27, 2019 Buzz, Features It’s a chilly Saturday night on the Lower East Side of New York City, and I am watching the best all-girl band I have ever seen tear this sweaty, gyrating, crammed room apart. Kid Sistr is 22-year-old, singer-...
Reality Check: GORDON SONDLAND—THE HUMAN CARPET BOMB Trump Supporter & EU Ambassador Buries Everyone in Key Impeachment Testimony James Campion November 27, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “I know that members of this committee frequently frame these complicated issues in the form of a simple question: Was there a ‘quid pro quo?’ As I testified previously with regard to the requested White House...
Reality Check: THE DAY MY FATHER DIED James Campion November 6, 2019 Columns, Reality Check I will always remember. It was sunny. A Saturday. Crisp autumn temperatures. Three days after his eighty-first birthday. My brother called from North Carolina. The things we discussed when I was down there in ...
Reality Check: GOP, THE RULE OF LAW, AND THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY: Trump’s Guilt is Absolute, So Who Will (or Won’t) Do Something About It? James Campion October 30, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Defenders of the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors are running out of stuff. And, man, they’ve tried all the stuff; denied it ever happened (quid pro quo on military aid to another nation unless it dug ...
Reality Check: PRESIDENT TERRORIST: Trump’s Attack on American Interests in the Middle East Sets Up Next 9/11 James Campion October 23, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “You are creating a Frankenstein.” —Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to President George H. W. Bush, 1989. The president of the United States has now gone complete...
