March 25, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As Haiti continues its descent into chaos, the Dominican Republic continues to prosper. The two countries share the island of Hispaniola and a lot of history, and yet the Dominican Republic now stands as one of the wealthiest nations in Latin America. Read story
March 25, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Washington’s public defense system has been overextended for some time. It’s underfunded and understaffed, making it difficult — sometimes impossible — for publicly paid court-appointed attorneys to keep up with caseloads. Read story
March 23, 2024, 6:02am Columns
As uphill battles go, this might be the Mount Rainier of Washington politics. Read story
March 23, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Of course no one will lend Donald Trump the half-billion dollars he needs to put up while appealing his fraud case. Would you? Read story
March 23, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Not a month goes by, it seems, when the country doesn’t have some minor cultural trend to spar over. These “debates” can be fun or not. But in almost every case, fights over these passing fixations are futile. Read story
March 23, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Speaker Mike Johnson in just months has all but cemented his place among the weakest House leaders in its history. Alas, the Louisianan nonetheless holds enough power that he’s single-handedly blocking one of the most crucial matters of our time: bipartisan U.S. aid to Ukraine for its defense against Vladimir… Read story
March 23, 2024, 6:01am Columns
A pair of reports last week from Talking Points Memo and The Guardian outline the influence and membership of a previously secret group operating in Idaho, a Christian extremist group called the “Society for American Civic Renewal,” or SACR. Read story
March 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace was in Washington, D.C., telling a story about how her “fiance” wanted more action in bed earlier that day. Read story
March 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
For over a century, Washington’s key tools of citizen control over their government — the initiative and the referendum — were a real bargain. Read story
March 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It’s impossible to predict with confidence who will win the presidency of the United States in November 2024. Read story
