A reckless, clueless vaudevillian ... a sad, embarrassing wreck of a man ... crazy ... boorish and bigoted, enemy of the people ... treasonous.Each of these epithets was applied this past week to Donald Trump following the president鈥檚 profoundly un-presidential performance standing alongside ...
For yet more proof that the Trump administration has abandoned the traditional government role of oversight to form an unholy alliance with private enterprise, you need not look further than a recent meeting of World Health Organization (WHO) affiliates.At a gathering in Geneva of the World ...
History doesn鈥檛 repeat itself. That would be something. Welcome to Groundhog Day the movie.Still, there are patterns.An example, which might explain the still-unfolding scandals of the Trump administration:The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., argued: 鈥淲hen private interest dominates (the ...
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a point.Last Monday, she stepped to the podium during a White House briefing and she was rightfully upset, because she鈥檇 been asked to leave a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.The owner of the Red Hen restaurant polled her ...
For those of us trying to make sense of American history, the 鈥渓ittle mountain鈥� home of Thomas Jefferson is a good place to start.A four-hour-plus car drive from home, Monticello contains the vast contradictions of Jefferson the man and the nation he helped lead to independence. Not for ...
President Trump still wants to build a wall.Instead, he ran head first into a wall built on the collective outrage of people who had enough of him using children snatched from their parent鈥檚 arms, as a cheesy political maneuver.Splat!In the end, Trump, the tough guy, blinked; caved; ...