Carl Golden

Biden’s hyperbole is getting a bit ridiculous

05/10/2022

President Biden and those around him have a fondness for using historical disasters as points of comparisons to raise the level of outrage over outbreaks ... Read More

Biden’s problem isn’t his failure to communicate

04/20/2022

With public approval lodged for months between 40 and 42 percent and facing a midterm election anticipated to be a seismic disaster, President Biden has ... Read More

Biden and Harris present a shaky future for Democrats

04/11/2022

In the history of the Watergate scandal of 1972 - arguably the most egregious instance of government corruption in the nation’s history - one of ... Read More

Clarence Thomas and his Virginia problem

03/28/2022

Virginia Thomas, wife of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, is free to hold whatever opinions, thoughts, judgments or impressions of politics and ... Read More

Trump, the insurrection, and Nixon’s pardon

03/10/2022

Nearly 48 years ago, President Gerald Ford granted a “full, free and absolute pardon to Richard Nixon,” shielding the former president from prosecution for conspiring ... Read More

A Civil War going on among Republicans

02/10/2022

That hissing sound heard all over Washington, D.C., recently was the air escaping from the MAGA 2024 balloon after Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered ... Read More

Republicans biggest foe heading into the midterms? Donald Trump.

02/01/2022

By all accounts, it is a near certainty the Republican Party will regain control of the House of Representatives this year and is well-positioned to ... Read More

Could Hillary Clinton really run for president again?

01/19/2022

While President Biden’s downward spiral in public approval continues, nervous Democrats have sought to reassure one another to remain calm, insisting there remains ample time ... Read More

Build Back Later

01/06/2022

Build Back Better, the centerpiece of President Biden’s ambitious domestic legislative agenda, has become Build Back Later…maybe. What was to have been the administration’s history-making ... Read More

CNN, Fox News, and the Unraveling of Journalism Ethics

12/22/2021

For years, it’s been black letter law in journalistic ethics: Never use your position, insight or knowledge to aid or advise public figures - particularly ... 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

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