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By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2020We would love to believe that we have beaten the coronavirus. But the continued increases of individuals infected with COVID-19 remind us that the…

Donald Trump is in trouble. In the midst of the Coronavirus outbreak, people are looking for real answers to actual problems. Donald Trump has no answers. He never has had…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 29th, 2020President Trump often feels the need to declare to no one in particular that he is a “very stable genius.” Such unwarranted outbursts typically…

The former Justice Department chief of staff contradicts Gonzales in congressional testimony.Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was briefed regularly over two years on the dismissals of federal prosecutors, according to former…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2020 “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 29th, 2020Yesterday, the American Sparkdiscussed a study on the benefits of a Medicare-for-All system that wasrecently released by The Lancet, one the world’s top medical…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 28th, 2020A study on the benefits of a U.S. national health care system was released two weeks ago by The Lancet.It has quickly become a…

If you have been searching for one clear-cut, impartial source that explains the “Ukraine Issue” and the subsequent impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, the American Spark has found it: A…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 29th, 2020 The biggest politicalmatter in the U.S. at the moment is the impeachment of Donald Trump.Everyone knows that the issue revolves around the Trump…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2019“Record low extents of Arctic sea ice over the past decade have focused scientific and policy attention on links to global climate change [which…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2019A fascinating study on the drive to create a direct popular election of the U.S. president was quietly released last month, by the Congressional…

In recent articles, we at have worked to bring readers a series of deep, multi-part investigations of questionable historical actions performed by the U.S. intelligence community. Those articles have proven…

The American Spark has decided to discuss a few key, well-documented instances in which U.S. officials worked to overthrow foreign governments too left-wing for their personal taste. The next three…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 31st, 2019Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, believed that one had to go to the earliest possible sources…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 31st, 2019With Donald Trump in the White House, it’s important to remind ourselves of how previous U.S. administrations worked to overthrow foreign leaders they thought…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2019The first of the American Spark’s promised studies on U.S. socio-economic hit-men will discuss the part they played in the 1953 coup of Iran’s…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2019War is the continuation of politics by other means. – Carl von ClausewitzVice President Mike Pence recently told the West Point Class of 2019…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 26st, 2019* A note: On Mar. 31st, the Spark promised to deliver this article to our readers on Apr. 5th. Since we are only now…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2019Will anyone get to see Donald Trump’s tax returns? For a man who loves to brag about his supposed financial acumen, he seems strangely…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 28th, 2019The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) runs the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), which operates a massive health-care system serving almost 9 million veterans…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st 2019For over 40 years, U.S. policy has officially declared that Native American tribes must be allowed to govern themselves.But if the European has consistently…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2018In 1973, The War Powers Resolution was enacted as a means of providing an essential check on the president’s power to send U.S. troops…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2018There’s been a lot of talk about who will be elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in January, when the Democrats take…