Nelson Morgan

Nelson Morgan is an Emeritus Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and former director of the International Computer Science Institute, is the author of “We Can Fix It: How to disrupt the Impact of Big Money on politics”, with a foreword by George Lakoff. He lives in Phoenix, and currently volunteers for both Indivisible and the Democratic Party, with a particular interest in redistricting (2030 is closer than you think).

Why did we lose?

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As election results are being certified, pundits everywhere are providing their diagnosis of Democratic losses: the party was too progressive; the party wasn’t progressive enough; candidates depended on abortion too much (or too little); candidates’ arguments on immigration were too weak; or their responses on the border actually reinforced an overamped image of immigrant hordes … Read more

Anti-vaccination insanity

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Dear readers, I was impressed by this piece written by epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs, so I’m copying it here in its entirety (with her permission). Note that it was written before Election Day; but rather than editing it to reflect what has happened, I prefer to provide the column as is. While I have my own … Read more

How bad will it be? I hope I was wrong

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I really thought Harris would win. Yes, I knew that all indications were that it would be close, but still, it felt like the campaign had caught the public’s eye about women’s health, and there seemed to be a lot of enthusiasm.  Obviously, other factors dominated, and unfortunately, my intuition was wrong. But while I didn’t think … Read more

Polling trends have you worried? Don’t be.

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What, me worry? Maybe not so much. I’m writing one week before “Election Day”, where I use the quotes to acknowledge that early voting here in Arizona has been going on for almost 3 weeks. Most of my friends and like-minded acquaintances are pretty freaked out. In our ideological bubble, we are repelled by the … Read more