June 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The late Sen. John McCain didn’t much like Obamacare, but in 2018, the Arizona Republican pulled it out from under then-President Donald Trump’s hatchet. Why? Because McCain saw the “skinny repeal” measure as a sneaky attempt to eviscerate the health coverage of little guys to free up money for tax… Read story
June 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Avoter in Washington may have better representation in Congress and the Electoral College than a voter in Idaho but worse representation than a voter in Montana. Read story
June 11, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It was one of those rants that would disqualify a normal candidate. Read story
June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It’s sad and scary that so many people can believe anything from Donald Trump’s mouth when he contends his felony conviction marked the “darkest day in American history.” Read story
June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns
With the deadline quickly approaching for him to qualify for the June CNN presidential debate, RFK Jr. has yet to meet the sensible qualifications that CNN has set for participants. Which is as it should be. He doesn’t belong on the stage. His candidacy is at best a distraction and… Read story
June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Just three short years after the dawn of an era in which college athletes can profit off their name, image and likeness, a newer era is about to dawn courtesy of a legal settlement. Some 14,000 student-athletes who played and learned from 2016 to now will divvy up $2.8 billion… Read story
June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Kudos to John Oliver and HBO’s”Last Week Tonight” for their coverage of the opioid crisis and the resultant settlement. Many states are struggling to use the settlement funds effectively, and some are already repeating the waste, fraud and abuse involving Big Tobacco settlement funds ($206 billion) in the 1990s. But… Read story
June 10, 2024, 6:01am Columns
News flash: Republicans haven’t said it in so many words, but they seem to have a new line of attack against President Joe Biden: He suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Biden has multiple personalities. Read story
June 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Congress blew its chance Monday to give Americans some insight into the COVID pandemic that dominated our lives for years. Following a 15-month inquiry, Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic called Anthony Fauci to testify in public at a special hearing, but committee members spent most… Read story
June 8, 2024, 6:01am Columns
‘It’s the economy, stupid.” So declared Bill Clinton’s insurgent 1992 campaign, summing up the issue that would, more than any other, fuel his victory over President George H.W. Bush. Read story
