Author Archives: Ron Pavellas

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About Ron Pavellas

reader, writer, a sometimes poet

Putin’s return “a national catastrophe for Russia”

Those are the words Yevgeniya Albats wrote in her political journal, the Russian New Times Magazine, of which she is chief editor. My article today will recount the facts, opinions and assertions that Albats offered during a seminar at the … Continue reading

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States of the United States vs. the Federal Government

  From before the adoption of the US Constitution in 1787, there has been strenuous argument, sometimes bordering on the violent, between those who wanted a strong central government and those who saw the individual states as the primary locus … Continue reading

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