Republicans are currently twisting themselves into unseemly knots.They don’t appear to know how to respond to the multi-count felony indictment against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez.Menendez is a Democrat. That’s usually fertile ground for Republicans to pile on with claims that the entire ...
Every fall should be a reminder of that far-off day on which the fate of the republic was decided, at least tentatively. I know it is for me. I never fail to recall the bloodshed and horror and hope. To do so this year may be more important than ever – for then, like now, the future appeared ...
Lauren Opal Boebert is a Republican firebrand with a never-ending appetite for attention.She represents Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, with no shortage of provocative political views.Last February, Boebert, and her fellow troubled congressman, George Santos of New York, were among the ...
On an April day in 1937, John D. Mallory, “demonstration chairman,” and John P. Depto, toastmaster of that year’s Mitchell Day celebration for coal miners in Brownsville, messaged mine workers’ president John L. Lewis.At the parade and later at the banquet highlighting the April 1 ...
“Today, I am directing my House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” announced Republican House Speaker and whipping boy Kevin McCarthy last Tuesday.Despite the ominous sound of that proclamation, it’s McCarthy’s political career that’s in ...
The Constitution is housed, under glass for safekeeping, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The romantic and the realist might together say: wrong, it resides in the hearts and sinews of the people of the United States.The parchment on which the Constitution was first written is now ...
