October 7, 2024, 6:01am Columns
First announced in 2020, the case against Long Leaf Trading Group could hardly be simpler: A boiler-room operation based in Chicago cold-called unsuspecting marks to push a commodity-trading scheme. Practically all the customers lost money while the traders collected $1.2 million in commissions. Read story
October 7, 2024, 6:01am Columns
In judging Donald Trump’s policy pronouncements, voters are advised to take the former president “seriously but not literally.” There’s rarely much choice, given that so many of his promises, taken literally, are unintelligible. Yet the former president has made commitments on economic policy that are not only intelligible but might… Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
On Sept. 16, the Vancouver City Council voted on five initiatives to appear on the November ballot. First, it supported the city’s Proposition 4 to fund police and other public safety expenditures, but then it voted to oppose four statewide citizen initiatives. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
If his lips are moving, he’s lying. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The presidential campaign produced plenty of noise last week, but the race still appears mired in a virtual Electoral College tie. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Little ladies of America, put down your sewing kits and listen up: Donald Trump and the Republican Party have your cute little backs. They’re going to protect you — from making your own choices about reproduction, from deciding whether to own a cat, maybe even from traveling between states. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Aggressive purging of voter rolls has become the new brag among Republican governors — one that should trigger alarm bells about who is being disenfranchised by these actions. Read story
October 4, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It’s been one of the most obvious changes since Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee: tougher talk on the border, an emphasis on enforcement and prosecuting traffickers, and renewed support for a bipartisan bill that would keep building the wall and hire more Border Patrol agents. Read story
October 3, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Salena Zito, writing for The Atlantic in September 2016, may have been the first to describe, in a triumph of pithy efficiency, why Donald Trump is able to survive and thrive despite provocative statements that would endanger the career of nearly any other politician: “When he makes claims like this,… Read story
October 2, 2024, 6:01am Columns
At a donor event last week with Miriam Adelson, the widow of Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump promised to be the best friend Jews have ever had in the White House. The event was entitled “Fighting Antisemitism in America.” This is what Trump said: Read story
