Joel Connelly

Joel Connelly

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Recent posts on NPI’s Cascadia Advocate and Post Alley

  • Henry Kissinger: 1923–2023
    by Joel Connelly on December 2nd, 2023 at 3:20 AM

    Transfixed with power, Kissinger had little regard for small countries or people perceived as getting in the way. Henry Kissinger: 1923–2023 is a post from NPI’s Cascadia Advocate, the journal of the Northwest Progressive Institute. Published continuously since March of 2004, NPI’s Cascadia Advocate provides thoughtful commentary and analysis on regional, national, and world politics. Keep The Cascadia Advocate going by making a contribution to sustain NPI’s research and advocacy here.

  • Remembering John Kennedy and his Legacies
    by Joel Connelly on November 28th, 2023 at 2:33 PM

    “We will never laugh again,” columnist Mary McGrory told her friend Daniel Moynihan, to which he replied, “Mary, we will laugh again but we will never be young again.”

  • After picking up WA-03 and Alaska in 2022, PNW House Democrats are now on defense
    by Joel Connelly on November 27th, 2023 at 9:42 PM

    It takes days to count mail-in ballots in Washington, and weeks under Alaska’s ranked voting system. Conceivably, the nation could be kept waiting next November for a final vote on which party controls one house of Congress. After picking up WA-03 and Alaska in 2022, PNW House Democrats are now on defense is a post from NPI’s Cascadia Advocate, the journal of the Northwest Progressive Institute. Published continuously since March of 2004, NPI’s Cascadia Advocate provides thoughtful commentary and analysis on regional, national, and world politics. Keep The Cascadia Advocate going by making a contribution to sustain NPI’s research and advocacy here.

  • Two Northwest Congressional Races with National Implications
    by Joel Connelly on November 27th, 2023 at 1:35 PM

    Republican challengers are already lining up to oppose Mary Peltola in Alaska and Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez in Washington state, two Blue Dog Democrats in Republican strongholds.

  • The Supremes: Ethics as a “Suggestion”
    by Joel Connelly on November 20th, 2023 at 2:55 PM

    Chief Justice Roberts declared: “I have complete confidence in the capability of my colleagues to determine when recusal is warranted.”