Will Bunch
Will Bunch is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and author of its popular blog Attytood.
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Views Saturday, January 02, 2021 Nashville, Rockford, and the New Age of Paranoia If you’re one of the millions who believe that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, you might find the bizarre events that unfolded in downtown Nashville beginning around 1:22 a.m. on 2020′s celebration of Christ’s birthday a little Bruce Willis-y, more like something from a bad Hollywood blockbuster... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 16, 2020 A Notable Death in 2020: American Democracy True story: I used to be a crazy Civil War buff when I was 5 years old. In the year when most normal kids were getting Beatles records or the latest loud offering from Mattel, I asked Santa for my blue Union soldier uniform. I even made my dad get off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and take me to see... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 05, 2020 A Self-Pardon Would Be a Fitting Tribute to Trump's Raging Narcissism—And Shows Need For Clemency Reform Donald Trump is probably the world's worst Monopoly player—all his steel hotels on Boardwalk are already mortgaged to the hilt even before he passes "Go," right?—but it sure was a lucky roll of the dice when he scooped up the ultimate get-out-of-jail free card, which works for his pals, his kids,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 04, 2020 America Wakes Up to a Near Worst-Case Scenario A republic? I’m no long sure we can keep it after an excruciating Election Night that devolved after midnight into a strange, inert uncertainty. But the things that seem pretty clear on Wednesday morning are terrible enough. Despite an Electoral College map that leans ever so slightly in Joe Biden’... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 30, 2020 Trump's Politicized Supreme Court Has Lost Legitimacy. 2021's Dems, Do Something! We’ve just seen one of the worst weeks in the 230-year-plus history of the U.S. Supreme Court. And that is really saying something, when you think about its other low points including the 1857 Dred Scott ruling , which held Black people as inferior and denied them U.S. citizenship, or 1896′s Plessy... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 02, 2020 It’s Not 'Chaos': Trump Revealed a Clear Blueprint for Crushing American Democracy September 29, 2020, will likely go down in history as one of the darkest days in American democracy—but arguably not in the way the average voter saw things. All eyes, after all, were focused on a debate stage in Cleveland where the 45th and possibly last president of the United States was... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 25, 2020 Will Dems' Embrace of Mail, Masks, and Social Distance Help Trump Win the Election? It’s becoming something of a cliché in this crazy year of 2020, but in mid-September Joe Biden came to a minor-league ballpark in Moosic, Pa.—a few home-run balls from where the Democratic presidential hopeful was born — and staged a campaign event unlike anything America has ever seen before. In a... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 06, 2020 The Real 'Hoax' in America Is Record Wall Street Profits as Nation's Jobless Millions Cannot Afford Rent Don’t blame Lisa Scott, a 43-year-old certified nursing assistant who lives in the Oxford Circle section of Philadelphia, for not celebrating this week as the Standard & Poor’s 500 index soared to yet another record high, as Wall Street’s unbelievable — in every sense of the word — summer... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 07, 2020 Why Do Police Unions Talk and Act Like the Mafia? How Can We Stop Them? Finally! After an unforgettable week in which America — already reeling from the brutal caught-on-video Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, on top of a pandemic, a recession, and ... everything — watched with dropped jaw literally dozens of videos of police clubbing, shoving, or driving... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 02, 2020 Donald Trump Needs to Go. And No, We Can’t Wait Until November The moment we’ve been dreading since that escalator ride down Trump Tower five years ago this month — that’s been slowly building brick by brick as Donald Trump tore down the rule of law , abused the presidency to enrich himself, and grabbed the bully pulpit of the White House to divide America... Read more |