If the impeachment effort isn’t taking the nation by storm, the Democrats have an answer — blame it on Latin. The use of a Latin term, quid pro quo, is now thought […]
Is what President Trump did a crime?
How real is Bloomberg’s White House bid?
It’s not fair to call Michael Bloomberg just a superrich dilettante. He is, after all, a former mayor of New York City, so he does have some experience as a political officeholder. […]
The evaporation of Beto O’Rourke
Here’s the thing about those bright, shiny human objects that are so irresistible to those of us in media: The truth is that, like so much bling, they are merely fool’s gold, […]
Battling terrorists is a deadly game
Let’s give credit where it’s due: As commander in chief, President Donald Trump can claim success for the military operation that took out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the long-elusive founder of ISIS, who, […]
Trump should want quick impeachment
The Ukraine story hasn’t been good for President Donald Trump, and there’s only one way out – to get impeached, and the sooner, the better. Trump obviously hates the idea of being […]
Franken: Donald Trump’s defiant strategy
It’s really difficult to tell because his hands are so small, but it looks for all the world that President Donald Trump has an extended middle finger raised at, well, all the […]
Can Democrats pull off an impeachment?
Vladimir Putin is not a Facebook friend of mine – that I know of, anyway. He could be, perhaps registered under an alias put out by the Moscow Troll Department, but to […]
Is America not ready for democracy?
In his “Gettysburg Address,” Abraham Lincoln described a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” The problem for any democracy is that those people can make a mistake – […]
Lowry: The problems with impeachment
Impeachment is about to make everything worse. If our politics seems overheated, our institutions beleaguered and our public debate degraded, just wait until we are in the midst of the impeachment debate. […]
Franken: It’s the foolishness of mortals
Latin is supposedly a “dead language,” meaning no one speaks it as their native tongue. Except attorneys, of course, who use it to make law indecipherable so that they can charge exorbitant […]
