The cover story in this month鈥檚 edition of Harper鈥檚 Magazine reveals a damning bit of American history.That aside from that scallywag Richard Nixon having made attempts to circumvent the whole U.S. Constitution, he left an even darker legacy.The article鈥檚 writer, Dan Baum, highlighted a ...
Donald Trump wants to build a wall at the border. Democrats should be the party that builds things that count.The party should push the envelope on this one.In addition to roads and bridges, Democrats should become the party that puts the nation鈥檚 costly clutter of overhead wires safely ...
The world鈥檚 pre-eminent political mischief-maker, Donald J. Trump, has labeled his closest competitor 鈥淟yin鈥� Ted.鈥滲y doing that, Trump is willfully engaging in what they call 鈥減rojection.鈥滺e knows that fact-checkers have called into question many of his proclamations, so why not ...
It鈥檚 still early in the political year 鈥� yea, early 鈥� but one thing seems certain: after the final votes are counted in November and a new president sworn into office in January, the country will demand that something real be done to reverse the decades-long trend of stagnant ...
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump had a good day last Tuesday.Not just because they each won primary elections.But predictably, they both used the tragic terrorist attacks in Brussels to convince America that they know how to easily prevent those kinds of things.They each have Superman complexes. But ...
To show you how times have changed: once upon a time the federal government was considered the very heart and soul of the country. An attack on it was considered an attack on American democracy itself.How many people think that is the case today? Not as many as in 1861, I鈥檒l bet.Let me ...