By Jessie Seigel / October 20, 2024 As usual in a presidential election year, the media is busy handicapping the horserace, pushing the...

By Jessie Seigel / September 25, 2024 Happy birthday to My Washington Whispers The inaugural issue of My Washington Whispers was...

By Jessie Seigel / September 8, 2024 Many firmly expect that Vice-President Kamala Harris will wipe the floor with former president...

By Jessie Seigel / August 25, 2024 The Democratic National Convention, filled from the floor to the rafters! Last week’s Democratic...

By Jessie Seigel / August 4, 2024 N/A by Mario Correa is playing at the Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater I am currently working...

By Jessie Seigel / July 22, 2024 President Joe Biden and his chosen successor, Vice-President Kamala Harris Yesterday, President Joe...

By Jessie Seigel / July 4, 2024 Let’s start with the bottom line. The Supreme Court’s decision concerning Donald Trump’s presidential...

By Ron Seigel / July 1, 2024 Early, last Friday morning, I, like many other Americans, received an email message requesting my reaction...

By Jessie Seigel / June 30, 2024 The biggest problem with last Thursday night’s presidential debate hosted by CNN is that the public has...

By Jessie Seigel / June 18, 2024 It is time for all those who claim to care about democracy—whether mainstream media, politician, or...

By Jessie Seigel / June 2, 2024 Anti-Trump protesters Finally, some small modicum of justice has been rendered. Last Thursday, former...

By Jessie Seigel / May 20, 2024 House Speaker Mike Johnson at the Trump trial--with other members of the Red Tie Brigade There are some...

By Jessie Seigel / April 29, 2024 Besieged by a multitude of federal and state criminal indictments—and now, by his first criminal trial,...

By Jessie Seigel / April 15, 2024 Eric Fischel's poster given out at his London show on U.S. underbelly. Come one, come all. The show is...

By Jessie Seigel / March 31, 2024 It is rare and a beautiful thing to see a body of journalists stand up en masse against their bosses...

By Jessie Seigel /March 19, 2024 Yesterday's My Washiington Whispers issue discussed the strategies political scientist Rachel Bitecofer...

By Jessie Seigel / March 18, 2024 The time for “nice” is over. Bi-partisanship—if it ever really existed—is long-dead; only the fiction...

By Jessie Seigel / March 7, 2024 The two-faced Mitch McConnell yet again shows himself a man of no principle. Some commentators on...

By Jessie Seigel / March 3, 2024 President Biden won last week’s Democratic primary in Michigan with 81 percent of the vote. He received...

By Jessie Seigel / February 18, 2024 America’s strength is its democracy. Admittedly, the country does not always completely live up to...