Carl Golden

Out of a Large Democratic Field, Can a Woman Emerge?

01/29/2019

The United States elected its first president in 1789.One hundred seventy-one years elapsed before the nation chose its first Catholic president, another 20 years before ... Read More

Pelosi Keeping Loud New Progressives in Line… For Now

01/09/2019

Facing an unruly band of newly-installed members of the House clamoring for impeachment proceedings against President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a voice of ... Read More

Bill and Hillary Clinton Just Won’t Go Away

12/04/2018

Like an aging vaudeville duo whose act has grown stale and whose once-adoring audiences have diminished to a nostalgia-driven handful, Bill and Hillary Clinton have ... Read More

Acosta Flap Proves It’s Time to End White House Briefings

11/13/2018

The ugly confrontation between the president and a reporter in the White House briefing room should remove whatever doubts existed over whether the daily briefings ... Read More

Sadly, Kavanaugh Fight Night Over Yet

10/11/2018

In the immediate aftermath of what was arguably the ugliest two weeks in modern United States Senate history, both sides claimed victory, each insisting the ... Read More

Not Only is a Blue Wave Coming, Its Getting Stronger

09/19/2018

As the Trump White House lurches from one public relations disaster to another, Democrats are increasingly optimistic over regaining control of the House in an ... Read More

How Democrats Could Hurt Their Chances in November

08/29/2018

In the face of month upon month of glowing reports of a national economy reaching new milestones, the blue wave - the movement predicted to ... Read More

Trump’s War on the Press Won’t End Well

08/09/2018

In baseball lingo, the high, inside fastball is known as the brushback, a tactic to inform the batter that he'd better be cautious about digging ... Read More

Dems at Odds Over Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

07/16/2018

Sabers drawn, the Democratic Party's far left has unleashed its charge up Capitol Hill to rout President Trump and send his U. S. Supreme Court ... Read More

Civic Discourse Has Tumbled to a Shocking New Low

06/27/2018

Other than Dallas Cowboys fans living in Philadelphia, no collection of individuals is subject to as much vitriol and opprobrium as those in public life ... Read More

Carl Golden

Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He served as press secretary for New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean (1982-1990) and as communications director for New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman (1994-1997). His commentary appears on editorial pages of newspapers in New Jersey and Philadelphia as well as on news websites.

Carl Golden

Carl Golden

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