NERO NATION By Justin Frank, MD Originally written in July 2001. I revisited this essay and found it very relevant to American political life in 2021, especially to the media’s coverage of our disgraced and dangerous ex-president Trump. If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen…

From “A house divided against itself cannot stand” to “A house divided against itself must not stand.” Is the GOP the party of Trump? No. It’s its own party. It stands against truth. It stands against thinking. It stands against believing what you see with your own eyes. So, what…

by Justin Frank, MD The party of “no:” is that what it means to be a Republican? We are now reminded, in case people forgot, that Biden’s push for unity and working across the aisle is mostly a pipe dream. Wishing does not make it so. Hard work could make…

In her Inauguration Day poem, “The Hill We Climb,” Amanda Gorman recited the lines, “Even as we grieved, we grew.” President Biden gave the best speech of his long career as a public servant, weaving his personal history of profound losses into the fabric of his political determination. I was…

On October 30, CNN reported that in his recent rallies Trump made a series of baseless claims that doctors were inflating the coronavirus death count for their own monetary gain, despite the fact that COVID cases and deaths are rapidly surging across our country. At a rally in Michigan’s Waterford…

In 2003, I told a good friend that I had a contract with the publisher HarperCollins to write a book titled Bush on the Couch. He replied, “Thank you for being cannon-fodder for the rest of us.” He was speaking not only as a friend, but also as a senior…