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Lowell Ponte is a former think tank futurist and retired roving editor at Reader's Digest. He is coauthor, with Craig R. Smith, of "Money, Morality & the Machine: Smith's Law in a Lawless, Over-Governed Age." Ponte's articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and major other publications.
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The 2020 election: A choice, not an echo

by Lowell Ponte -- America used to practice centrist, two-party politics. The object of the game for both parties was to capture the center. What defined America's political center was that if more…

Elizabeth Warren joins presidential warpath

by Lowell Ponte -- "Our fight is for big structural change," said Senator Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.), announcing last Saturday that she is running for president. Her goal, she said, was to "take more…

Billionaire rules

by Lowell Ponte -- According to self-described socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.-N.Y.), 540 Americans should not be permitted to exist. America is "immoral," she says, for letting anybody be one of these more…

The progressive pander to the press

by Lowell Ponte -- The state of New York should "make assaulting the press a felony," tweeted its leftist Governor Andrew Cuomo days ago. "Journalists must be protected from the threat of more…

The new politics of advertising

by Lowell Ponte -- Gillette, whose razors shave a large share of the men in America, just issued a controversial commercial that accuses many of its customers of poisoning our society with more…

The progressive panic over Trumpzilla

by Lowell Ponte -- President Donald Trump continues to be the progressive left's worst nightmare, what the classic movie "Forbidden Planet" foresaw as a "monster from the id," created by their own more…

Polarizing politics

by Lowell Ponte -- America watched the radically transformed leftist Democratic Party take control of the House of Representatives last week. It was an ugly spectacle. "We're gonna impeach the MotherF***er," declared more…

The New Year and the New World Disorder

by Lowell Ponte -- World War I ended a century ago in 1919, leaving more than 116,000 Americans dead and 320,000 sick or wounded in Progressive Democrat President Woodrow Wilson's conflict. Many more…

Way to fund a border wall

by Lowell Ponte -- "Good fences make good neighbors." – Robert Frost, poet Democrats have chosen to defund the federal government rather than pay a pittance to protect our country. Some kind more…

The Orwellian lexicon of the left

by Lowell Ponte -- Words control how a person thinks, and that thought shapes our reality. This is why the left works so hard to control and censor the language we use. more…