DAVID M. RUBIN dmrubin@syr.edu South Carolina law requires that whoever is elected to be Superintendent of Education must possess "a...

JULY 18, 2022 DAVID M. RUBIN dmrubin@syr.edu In the classic 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, Chinese Communists brainwash a captured...

JULY 5, 2022 DAVID M. RUBIN dmrubin@syr.edu The world must seem so simple to Governor Henry McMaster. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court...

If you need evidence of how discombobulated REPRESENTATIVE NANCY MACE is by the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling on abortion, try to parse...

Now that Rep. Nancy Mace has weathered the wrath of Donald Trump and defeated his preferred candidate in the Republican primary for the...

At 8:15 pm on May 24, about three hours after Salvador Ramos killed 21 people, including 19 children, inside a school building in Uvalde,...

MAY 13, 2022 DAVID M. RUBIN dmrubin@syr.edu The 94th Assembly District in the Summerville area was the launching pad for one of South...

Is anyone surprised that our naive Governor Henry McMaster is just as dazzled by the glamour of the National Football League as the...

One doesn't have to be a civil engineer to know how dangerous and aggravating South Carolina roads are. Rough pavement, potholes, poor...

When a politician responds to a journalist with the words "I didn't know until you told me," you can be sure it's a lie. A Kaiser Health...

(On Saturday, March 19 I spoke at a meeting of the Dorchester Country Democratic Party. Congressman Jim Clyburn was in attendance. He...

When the Supreme Court reverses Roe v, Wade later this spring, do not assume that anti-abortionists will declare victory and cease their...

Thanks to recent Republican gerrymandering, Democrats who have been moved into the re-drawn 114th Assembly District will come face to...

Representative Nancy Mace thought she was on a glide path to the Republican nomination to keep her seat in the House. Her election...

Just to establish the bona fides of our subject, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker was the ONLY member of the United States Senate to vote...

Credit President Joe Biden for putting on the table the reasonable question: "What are Republicans for?" The chairman of the South...

If Republicans had a time machine, they would take us back to Election Day in South Carolina in the 1950s, a Norman Rockwell experience. ...

South Carolina has for the time being ceded the news spotlight on election "reform" to Texas, Georgia and a few other battleground states....

It's a full-time job keeping up with the political stunts, absurd statements and insults to the intelligence of voters that come from our...

Amid a blizzard of whoppers coming from Donald Trump, his oft-repeated claim that he did more for Black Americans than any President,...