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The Serious Matter of Political Humor Mar. 18, 2017
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only American elected president four times, had an often overlooked s... Read More
Did Obama Spy on Trump? Mar. 16, 2017
The question of whether former President Barack Obama actually spied on President Donald Trump durin... Read More
Trump and the Dems Need a Timeout Mar. 14, 2017
Many of us — no, make that most of us — have lost faith in important American institut... Read More
Why the Cuban Missile Crisis Matters Today Mar. 11, 2017
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, a French hero and statesman who did not lack for self-esteem, once stated, "... Read More
Concealing and Revealing Mar. 02, 2017
Last week, President Donald Trump erupted with fury over a series of public revelations of private f... Read More
'Partyism' Replaces Racism as the Great Divider Feb. 17, 2017
Pop culture once offered a needed respite from politics and the expression of personal opinion that ... Read More
Intellectual Honesty and Political Indifference Feb. 16, 2017
Over the past weekend, Trump administration officials offered harsh criticisms of the judicial inter... Read More
The President and the Courts Feb. 09, 2017
Last week, in a public courtroom in the federal courthouse in Seattle, the states of Washington and ... Read More
Is Trump Really Running Things? Feb. 09, 2017
Last Saturday night, Donald Trump attended the Red Cross Ball at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach... Read More
The Super Bowl Drove Me Gaga Feb. 09, 2017
WASHINGTON — For me the football season begins in mid-December (when everyone becomes serious)... Read More
The Circus Just Arrived -- at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Feb. 07, 2017
I'm starting to think the real reason the Barnum & Bailey circus is going out of business has nothin... Read More
Continuing in Obama's Path Feb. 03, 2017
For eight years, conservatives — rightly, in my view — railed against the imperial presi... Read More
What Is Trump Doing and What Does He Think He's Doing? Jan. 29, 2017
WASHINGTON — Hang on, friend. This is going to be a bumpy ride. President Donald Trump's first... Read More
The Left's Vagina-Based Politics Demeans Women Jan. 25, 2017
Last Saturday, in an attempt to demonstrate outrage at ... at ... well, at something , some three m... Read More
Trump's Turn to Write the Check Jan. 23, 2017
To get it out of the way, I live in a poverty stricken midsized city in Massachusetts. We used to ha... Read More
New President, New World Jan. 20, 2017
"Don't Make Any Sudden Moves" is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Cou... Read More
President Trump Lays Down the Law Jan. 20, 2017
Lest people think that President Trump (it feels so good to write these words) was making it up as h... Read More
The Hostile Transition of Power Jan. 20, 2017
Everyone who wondered what Steve Bannon has been doing in Trump Tower now knows the answer: He has b... Read More
He Gave His Daughter a Kindle and Filled It With Books Jan. 18, 2017
The first time I met Barack Obama was in early 2006, when he was still a U.S. senator. He had come t... Read More
An Inaugural Address or a Rally? Jan. 15, 2017
At nearly 3 a.m. on Nov. 9, Donald J. Trump spoke to the world after TV networks declared him the vi... Read More
