Sam Smith – My father was a New Deal official and I first covered Washington for a DC radio station 67 years ago so I have some background for saying that we are in the worst political period...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/the-real-danger/
From our overstocked archives Sam Smith, 2011- For some four decades I argued for an elected district attorney and comptroller in my hometown of Washington DC. This wasn’t just an intellectual ...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/my-first-political-lessons/
From our archives Sam Smith, 2012 – A lot of the trouble began when television and politics discovered each other. It was about 1960. Now politics no longer had to be a product of long hist...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/how-television-changed-our-politics/
Sam Smith – As I cover the horrors of Trumpism I’m repeatedly struck but how such terrible things are not remotely connected to the small village we where we live in Maine. One is surrounded ...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/the-collapse-of-civil-america/
Sam Smith – In September, it will be sixty years since your editor first published a journal belonging to what became known as the “underground press.” This journal, The Idler, was joining ...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/60-years-on-the-case/
Sam Smith – Although we know Trump has been charged with 91 federal felonies, we don’t know how many Americans actually know what a felony is. To make this issue clearer, it would help if t...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/how-to-make-the-charges-against-trump-clearer/
Sam Smith – The current battle for the White House has taken a turn that impacts my personal life, thanks to the debate over the proper age of a president. I have managed with little difficul...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/facing-old-age/
Sam Smith – When a con artist as despicable as Donald Trump attracts so much support, it is time to look at what has happened to our collective society to permit this. Quite independent of Trum...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/why-so-many-support-trump/
Sam Smith – Lately, I’ve been struggling with two confusing historic crises: the age of our presidential candidates and the Colorado court case. I know where, as a progressive, I presumably s...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/two-confusing-historic-crises/
Sam Smith – As the son of a Roosevelt administration official and as a guy who got involved in political action in the 1960s I’ve been feeling for some time a growing lack of enthusiasm for p...
https://samsmitharchives.wordpress.com/2024/01/14/whats-missing-in-the-fight-for-progress/