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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS is a Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at StonyBrookMedicine (NY). As well as having been a regular political columnist on several national websites for over 20 years, he is the author/co-author/editor/co- OpEd News Member for 790 week(s) and 2 day(s) 676 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 192 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Friday, August 29, 2025The Separation of Powers As the TrumpRepubloFascists/P2025 try to establish a form of fascist government in our nation, it becomes clear that a central element of their attack is the tri-partite U.S. government structure, with a separation of powers. This what must destroyed, if any of their larger goals are to be met. This column examines that central feature of the Constitution and how the TrumpRepubloFascists are indeed maneuvering to destroy it.
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Friday, August 22, 2025The Lost Cause: a Column Revisited Given President Trump's references to the "slavery wasn't so bad" dictum that has been common in U.S. politics, on and off, since 1877, and his attempts to enter that dictum into, for example, discussion of the role of the Smithsonian Institution, I thought to revisit a column that I wrote on "The Lost Cause" theme that dates from the 1890s. As is well-known, Heather Cox Richardson has done major work in this arena.
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Thursday, August 14, 2025Is Trump's "Munich" coming Up? The possibly-historically-famous meeting between the Presidents Trump and Putin is scheduled to take place tomorrow (August 15, 2025) almost 77 years to the day after the famous "Munich" meeting at which the British Prime Minister Chamberlain gave to Hitler's govt. a chunk of Western Czechoslovakia over which he had no sovereignty. This col. discusses why and how that happened, and what sort-of-historical parallel might occur.
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Friday, August 8, 2025Trump's 7 Magic Tricks: A Review; Plus a Note on the 25th Amendment I have been writing on what I have called "Trump's Six Magic Tricks" (now 7) for quite some time now. Trump is getting into all sorts of trouble over a variety of issues, ranging from extraditions, to tariffs, to inflation, to "Epstein." If you watch closely, you can see the Magic Tricks list on full display (as reviewed in this column). I also briefly deal with a possible "25th Amendment Situation," in re that VP mtg. on 8/6. ![Digital Reproduction of the Know-Nothing Party Flag. A perfect symbol to hang for the Repubs., no[[?], say in the Alitos' back-yard?, From WikimediaPhotos](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg/250px-Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg "Digital Reproduction of the Know-Nothing Party Flag. A perfect symbol to hang for the Repubs., no[[?], say in the Alitos' back-yard?, From WikimediaPhotos")
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Saturday, July 19, 2025The Republican Party: Xenophobia has been in its Blood, Since its Beginnings Trump's Threat to U.S. Const. Democracy has always been headlined by the doctrine of "Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia." At the outset of his, and P2025's, Program to Destroy U.S. Constitutional Democracy, he has been using rampant xenophobia, led in the field by ICE. As I have written in earlier columns, xenophobia was present in Party doctrine from its beginning in 1854. When indicated I will re-run a column. And do so here.
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Monday, July 7, 2025A Date that Shall Live in Infamy, plus some other Notes on TRF (1) This column reviews two "dates that shall live infamy" on which negotiations to find a peaceful solution to outstanding problems were suddenly ended by surprise attacks, and 2) the implementation of two major Republican policies: a broad-based attack on the poor, by ending major Fed. programs, and the massive strengthening of a Federal agency that combines functions similar to those of the Nazi "Brown Shirts" and the Gestapo.
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Friday, June 20, 2025TrumpRepubloFascism is Here: How Long Will It Stay? It depends TrumpRepubloFascism, to which for quite some time I have been referring to as an oncoming freight train, has now arrived on Track I. A very significant question is for how long it can be estimated that it will remain in the station, spreading its powers across the nation and beyond. One answer to that question may be found in the experiences of 20th-century fascist powers and whether or not they engaged in foreign wars.
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Thursday, June 12, 2025Trump 'Dictator for a Day?' Well, not Just One, Exactly This column re-visits one that I published on Trump and Hannity back in 2023, about Trump and the concept of "Dictator-for-a-Day. Hannity tried hard to get Trump to disavow any notion of becoming a dictator, even for one day. He did not succeed. We are now seeing the Trump-dictatorship in real time. This columns reviews the that interview and then briefly reviews the dictator-like politics that Trump is enacting, now.
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Friday, May 30, 2025Once Again: On Fascism, in the U.S. Once again, I am returning to a consideration of fascism, and its U.S. version. This column deals mainly with definitions of the term (mine, and others'), and, as noted above, the similarities between ICE and its powers and those of the Nazi German terror branch of government, the Gestapo. Unfortunately, for as long as Trump/P2025 remain in power, we shall have to return to a consideration of fascism and its U.S. variants.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025The Late Pope Francis: A Revisit About a year after Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis, on March 13, 2013, I published the column on him that I am re-publishing here. As it happens, his chosen successor, Leo XIV, seems to have been elected precisely because he is very likely to continue the Papacy and its policies in the tradition of Pope Francis. In that context, I thought that it might be of interest to re-visit that column about Francis, here. 
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025The Origin of the Self-Destructive Species: A Second Visit This is an update of a column originally published on another website over 10 years ago. It was stimulated by the movie "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes." It is about the uniqueness of our species, Homo Sapiens, as the only self-destructive one. One factor leading to its republication is my recent viewing of two more "Planet of the Apes" movies. The other is, of course, the US political crisis, which could lead to the next ....
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025"The Coming Constitutional Crisis?" It's Already Here On its own authority, the present Administration is amending the U.S. Constitution in very significant ways, on its own authority. This column lists/describes some of those amendments, in the context of the powers actually provided for to each of the three branches of government, as illustrated in the Appendix.
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Friday, March 7, 2025Trump, the Plan to Destroy US Const. Democ., and Dealing with Russia/Ukraine: Approaching 45 Days in Office This column deals first with Trump's ongoing efforts, using the detailed plans played out by the Heritage Foundation in Projedt2025, to destroy U.S. Constitutional Democracy and replace it with a form of Presidential Dictatorship. The column then reviews the rapid abandonment by Trump of the Biden Admin.'s policy towards the Russian invasion of Ukraine, towards a now rapidly-developing support of Putin/Russia, and why so.
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Friday, February 21, 2025"Munich I" and "Munich II:" An Historical Comparison In Sept. 1938, a conference was held in Munich, Germany, to deal with German territorial demands in Western Czechoslovakia (not a party to the conference). The major result was giving to Germany what it demanded. That agreement came to be known as "Munich" (or as I call it below, Munich I). With what may happen to Ukraine following the recent conference in that same city, that outcome could come to be known as "Munich, II."
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Monday, February 10, 2025Reversing Marbury v. Madison (for real this time) Vice-President J.D. Vance (one has to wonder if "J.D." really stands for Jefferson Davis) has more-or-less announced that the Trump version of the Executive Branch does not have to pay any attention to the Courts, Supreme (apparently) or otherwise (unless, of course, a court happens to rule in their favor). This position over-rules, in practice, the famous "Marbury v. Madison" decision in which the Court gave itself final say.
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Thursday, January 30, 2025A Partial List of Trump Executive Orders, thru 1/28/25 This is a partial (but still fairly complete) list of Trump Executive orders, through Jan. 28, 2025. It is to be taken as an addendum to the column published just below. click here
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Thursday, January 30, 2025The TrumpRepubloFascist Train Arrives on Track One: Some Early Observations This column is a review of actions the Trump Administration has taken in its earliest days as it quickly moves to replace U.S./Constitutional/Tri-partite separation of powers to one that is run by a "Unitary Executive" (a term freely used by some of Trump's top lieutenants, otherwise known as his string-pullers/puppet masters). As the column makes clear, "unitary Executive" is just a polite term for "fascism." 
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Sunday, January 19, 2025The End of U.S. Constitutional Democracy: Some News and Some Notes This column begins with a short history of how in a variety of nations fascism (defined at the end of the column) has succeeded some form of Constitutional Democracy, beginning in the 20th century. It then goes on to outline briefly how TrumpFascism will begin its takeover of U.S. (bourgeois-to-be-sure) Constitutional Democracy, beginning at 12:01PM on January 20, 2025 (that's tomorrow, for those keeping score).
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025What Trump Will/Might Do on Day 1 of His Presidency (with an Intro. on non-consecutive term Presidents) This column first discusses a few of the details of the only two non-Consecutive terms Presidencies. Then it discusses some of the Trump-endorsement-points made by a former Leftist, Naomi Wolf. Finally, it presents an analysis of an extensive list of "I-gonna-do-this-on-Day-One" pledges made by the incoming Pres. over time, collected for and presented in an (to-my-knowledge-non-copyrighted) issue of Axios. 
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Friday, December 20, 2024"Is it Hair Trump or Herr Trump?" I published the original version of this column back in 2015. As Trump prepares to move back into the White House for a second time, with echoes of "fascist" and "fascism" ringing round him and many of his associates/appointees, I thought that a revisit to it, nine years later, might be of interest. Page 1 of 34 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
