July 20, 2019, 6:01am Columns
People of color know Nancy Pelosi. Read story
July 19, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump’s presidency is melting down into a noxious stew of racism, failure and farce. With breathtaking cynicism, the Republican Party pretends not to notice. Read story
July 18, 2019, 6:01am Columns
From Little Red Riding Hood’s terrifying encounter with the Big Bad Wolf to Kevin Costner’s balletic romance with some kindred four-legged spirit in “Dances With Wolves,” Americans have long had a love-hate relationship with the ancestral predecessor of our favorite family pet. Read story
July 17, 2019, 6:01am Columns
To be American is a wonderful thing most of the time. There are moments, however, when it is downright humiliating. Can you imagine a more pitiful scene than a busload of Americans traveling 815 miles from Minneapolis to a Walmart in London, Ontario, Canada, to buy insulin at a 10th… Read story
July 16, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Alex Acosta resigned as labor secretary Friday morning. It was inevitable once he became the target of all virtuous people in Washington for negotiating a 2008 nonprosecution agreement that put super-rich sex offender Jeffrey Epstein behind bars for 13 months and required him to register as a sex offender and… Read story
July 15, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The Vindy announced its death about a week before Jeffrey Epstein was arrested. Though the timing was only a coincidence, the juxtaposition speaks volumes about the state of American journalism. Read story
July 14, 2019, 6:01am Columns
With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40 percent of his 10 Senate years, the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Congress passes these in order to spare itself the torture of performing its primary function, which is to set national… Read story
July 14, 2019, 6:01am Columns
If you’re thinking of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, you need maximum compassion, and liberals don’t have it. Promises of more money for lots of people can make voters ridiculously happy if they don’t understand that more for some always means less for others. So the… Read story
July 14, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Both men would resent the comparison, but before Donald Trump’s run for the White House came the candidacy of Ross Perot, who has died at age 89. Read story
July 14, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Americans tend to associate our health problems with sin. It’s hard to find a health story in the news that doesn’t blame greed and lack of willpower for our ongoing epidemics of obesity and diabetes as well as a recent upturn in the rate of heart disease. Read story
