Len Zwelling

Trust And Relationships As The Way To Improve Health Care By Leonard Zwelling Early in my fellowship on Capitol Hill, I was taught the four P’s of life in DC—policy, process, politics and personality—in ascending order of importance. Every congressional office knew what it believed proper policy was. The policies of my Democratic heritage were […]

Why Choose? By Leonard Zwelling We are older. The end is closer than the beginning. Life provides fewer choices, but when it does, we have to make them, right? Who says so? One of the things that the BW (aka Coach K) and I like to do when we make our semi-annual trips to Manhattan

Having The Tickets Vs. Learning On The Job By Leonard Zwelling President Trump was to nominate Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas to replace former Senator Dan Coates as Director of National Intelligence. (Then again, as of this writing, he is going to withdraw the name and pick someone else). This is the job of coordinating

Enough By Leonard Zwelling That word has several meanings. It can mean you have reached your limit. “You’ve had enough.” “You’re mad as hell and won’t take it any more.” I hear you. Many Americans in 2016 had had enough of politics as usual. They didn’t think that either mainstream party was advocating for them.

Because They Can By Leonard Zwelling When bad things are happening, reasonable people seek to understand why. Today there is much to question. Why is Donald Trump, a clear racist and misogynist, still in the White House? Why will members of his own Republican Party, the party that opposed slavery, sit silently by and tolerate

The Chinese Dilemma Revisited By Leonard Zwelling Two articles in the July 5 issue of Science Magazine go a long way toward explaining the quandary that American academia is in with regard to the competing forces of the need for foreign graduate students, post-docs, and faculty, including people from China, and the need to secure

Mueller’s Testimony: No One Cares By Leonard Zwelling It is now beyond apparent that the way to get the American public focused on an issue is not to have a two-year investigation of that issue followed by the publication of a thick redacted report that comes to no meaningful conclusions. Throughout the hearings on Wednesday,

The Race For President 2020 By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-option-kills-private-insurance-11563309118?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 The Republican strategy for pursuing the re-election of Donald Trump is being formulated by Donald Trump himself. It’s pretty much the one Richard Nixon used to win in 1972. First, any real American supports Nixon. Second, a real American does not criticize the United States even

The Re-emergence Of Racism In Politics And Academia And How It Has Been Met With Silence By Leonard Zwelling And you thought it couldn’t get any worse. Ha! Now President Trump has singled out four liberal, freshman Congresswoman of color for ridicule in his latest Tweet storm telling them to go back to the countries

The Moon Plus Fifty Years By Leonard Zwelling It is more than likely that more people who read this blog were not alive when the moon landing occurred fifty years ago on July 20, 1969, than were. I was about to turn 21. I watched Neil Armstrong descend to the lunar surface on a small