by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Aug 22, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe As unfit for the presidency as Donald Trump may be, he got the 2016 election campaign off to a good start by providing an opportunity to examine the assumptions that had guided U.S. foreign policy over the past half century. Should we renounce...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jul 20, 2016 | Monitor
Patricia Lee Sharpe Toward the end of Monday’s session of the Republican National Convention, after Melania Trump had spoken, there was an interesting exchange among the members of the PBS-NPR commentary crew. The detractors spoke first. Melania’s remarks about her...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 16, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe He began as the leader of a touchingly innocent Children’s Crusade to restore America to the people who have been systematically fleeced by a self-serving business elite. The needed revolution would be hard to achieve, he said, because an...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 23, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Lu marries Tham, but Chen marries Healy. Flannagan marries Kennedy, but Roberts marries Maheshwari. So the U.S. is still a melting pot, ethnically. But wait: birds of a feather—East Asian as well as Irish—are definitely flocking together. Both,...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 16, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe So Trump won’t be able to greet the new mayor of London at the White house—or even let him into the country—because he’s a Muslim. That’s only the beginning—think of all the other leaders who’ll be on the persona non grata list for religious...
