Columnist & Author of Coup, Crossing the Aisle, The Family Business and A Sense of Justice. Find my ‘Field Notes’ blog at https://xitter.gq/t.co/hiK5TZySMp
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Naming names: TN’s “political leaders who stay silent when it matters and scold when it’s safe.”
What Blackburn and Lee don’t say out loud, and why…
My Sunday column: NES outages, FEMA cuts and Tennessee’s missing leadership
tennessean.com/story/opinion…
The Vanishing Public Square - and Why it pays to engage with voters. It can make you a better Governor. keelhunt.substack.com/p/the-…
Outstanding interview with Al Gore, by Justin Kanew. Recommended listening to start your day. open.substack.com/pub/thetnh…
In this time of so much Chinese & Russian aggression, how much sense does it make to announce you’re gathering every US general and admiral from around the world - all our senior military leadership - on the same day in one pre-announced location?
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“September is the cruelest month” to have so much confusion over back-to-school vaccines. Let’s be clear who’s caused it.
My Sunday column is online now at Tennessean.com…
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Does any journalist covering state govt in Nashville have a clue what the Lee administration’s “error rate” is currently in operating of the SNAP program?
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A national column worth reading…
Barely five months into this stumbling, unmoored regime, one thing is clear: “…Trump and his aides are just not good at this governing thing.”
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“Racial profiling is an insult to our city and all our families. It is harmful and hurtful to civil society.“
My column…
tennessean.com/story/opinion…
“Loved ones of the ‘disappeared’ fear the worst, and the elected officials who have so utterly caved to an extreme Trump regime – Gov. Lee, US Senators Blackburn and Hagerty, other Republicans in the Legislature – have made themselves scarce.”
My column..
tennessean.com/story/opinion…
“In a saner world, a President would by now at least have assured seniors that their personal Social Security data will not be compromised and also veterans that their services from the Veterans Administration will not be lost.”
My column…
keelhunt.substack.com/p/zero…
Citizens, arise!
“Say something. Do something. Show action, not despair. Do not wait for the Democratic Party to unveil the One Plan. This is much bigger than a normal election-year fight between two tired political parties.”
My Sunday column…
keelhunt.substack.com/p/elem…
It’s ‘A Russian Peace’ that Trump has fashioned - a gift from the United States - one regime to another.
nytimes.com/2025/04/23/world…
…both branches of Congress have surrendered without a whimper. ‘Republicans in Congress have done nothing. They are fully beholden to Trump and will do nothing to resist... It is one of the most shameless capitulations in American history.’
nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opini…
‘The wrecking-ball of this new White House administration has been swinging wide and far – all condoned by a cowardly Congress. So punishing has all this been that Trump and the GOP geniuses around him could be sowing the seeds of their own ousters .’
tennessean.com/story/opinion…
“Trump and the Republican geniuses around him could be sowing the seeds of their own ousters, as U.S. citizens are beginning to see the damage of this un-American mischief.“
My Sunday column…
keelhunt.com/firstdrafts
“What’s a misled Nation to do?”
Not just one thing, but many.
open.substack.com/pub/keelhu…
“Yo Soy Abrega Garcia”
A brutish deportation, rendition to a Salvadoran prison, and utter lack of due process. Now, a shabby case of presidential defiance.
Read on… open.substack.com/pub/keelhu…
“Trump's personal devotion to international tariffs can be fathomed by no one but himself now. He has reversed his own course on a dime, heedless of how he makes the U.S. look to Wall Street or the world.”
My column for Sunday…
tennessean.com/story/opinion…