Be honest. If Kamala Harris was in the White House and it turned out that Vice President Tim Walz, the Secretary of Defense, the...

Niccolò Machiavelli was a Florentine political philosopher whose writings gave rise to the term “Machiavellian,” a word that describes...

I'm donating 100% of the profits from the sale of my historical novel Sovereign Oak to organizations supporting Hurricane Helene relief...

I've long been an admirer of Chef José Andrés and grateful for the remarkable work he's done around the globe through the organization he...

My historical novel Sovereign Oak is now available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats. Sovereign Oak tells the story of 3...

I wrote a few days ago about four of the six members of the Woodfin NC Town Council -- all Democrats and all allegedly progressives --...

If you identify as progressive on the political spectrum then you are all too familiar with the famous Pogo quote, "we have met the enemy...

In January, I wrote an op-ed in the Asheville Citizen Times saying that the 2024 election would preserve the status quo at the local...

Kelli enjoyed the picturesque view as she crossed over the high point at Sam’s Gap and began the descent down I-26 towards Asheville. It...

“No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” This oft-repeated observation is by H. L. Mencken, a...

I'm currently editing a historical novel I've written tentatively titled "Sovereign Oak" that's set in the mountains of Western North...

For the past several months, I've been working on a historical fiction novel set in the mountains of Western North Carolina where I live....

Nearly 75 years after the United States signed the North Atlantic Treaty and pledged to stand shoulder to shoulder with our North...

There was a time not long ago when Republicans seemed to be obliged to mention Ronald Reagan’s name every second or third sentence of...

More than forty years ago, economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote that what we’ve come to know as trickle-down economics was around in...

The Convention Against Torture says that “no exceptional circumstances whatsoever … may be invoked as a justification of torture.” The...

Acknowledging that something is true doesn't mean you have to respect it or admire it. I acknowledge that far-right extremists have...

"We ended up dancing around a demagogue. . . . The audience laughing at his comments about Jean Carroll. Disgraceful." -- A CNN on-air...

Rightfully, a lot of folks are alarmed by an ABC News poll showing Trump leading Biden in the 2024 presidential race. My takeaway from...

If you watched the Republican response to President Biden's State-of-the-Union address or if you've tuned in to one of the clown show...

Like so many others, my wife and I put off traveling after COVID arrived in 2019. This year, after a more than two-year hiatus, we...

With less than two months to go until Election Day, we’re inundated with political ads, many of them attack ads designed to convince...

I spent the first 21 years of my life in the foothills and mountains in the western one-third of North Carolina. I didn’t realize it...

“The primary question that has arisen at GITMO is whether torture based confessions are admissible,” said Guiora. “The clear ‘line in the...

The largest group of registered voters in NC is Unaffiliated voters. In a primary election, Unaffiliated voters can choose a Republican...

I'm grateful to the Asheville Citizen-Times for publishing my op-ed on PILT in the Sunday paper on February 6, 2022. Here it is: When I...

On January 21, 2022, I filed a lawsuit in the Buncombe County Superior Court. In a nutshell, the case is about the authority of a...

In some respects, it’s hard to believe that it’s been 36 years since Challenger exploded. Back then, I was a young captain with thick...

I'm grateful for the more than 40,000 donations to my congressional campaign that totaled nearly $2,300,000. Here's where the money went.