If there is one thing Donald Trump understands, it's that government, like a good movie, demands quick takes. In Trump-world, no scene runs longer than two minutes. Were it otherwise, the patrons 鈥� in this case, that means all of us 鈥� would look elsewhere for entertainment. The buzz ...
Franklin Roosevelt accepted the nomination of his party in June 1936 for a second term as president with a speech that has special meaning today. In 1936, the United States was still trying to find its way out of the most calamitous economic crisis in its history. The stock market crash of ...
The results are in, Donald Trump will return to the White House, and so democracy works, right? You betcha, and the fact that Trump is in and Kampala Harris is out should satisfy even the most skeptical election deniers that the 2020 election was on the up and up, too. After all, if the ...
The results are in, Donald Trump will return to the White House, and so democracy works, right? You betcha, and the fact that Trump is in and Kampala Harris is out should satisfy even the most skeptical election deniers that the 2020 election was on the up and up, too. After all, if the ...
Editor's note: This column has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of J.N. Kronick's last name. A little of this, a little of that. Negative political campaigning is hardly new. The first contested presidential election, in 1800, bristled with abuse. In 1858, Stephen A. Douglas, the ...
The great American jurist, Louis Brandeis, once said, "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both." In 2024, it might be just as relevant to say, 鈥淲e may have democracy or we may have Donald Trump, but we cannot have both.鈥� "We ...
