One of the biggest reasons American politics have turned upside down over the past few years is growing numbers of Americans do not think leaders represent their interests. That simple sentiment underlies nearly every recent problem in American politics. Yet for some reason, almost nobody has ...
Liz Cheney recently lost her primary race to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman, who received 65.8% of the vote to Cheney's 29.5%. "Two years ago, I won this primary with 73% of the vote," Cheney said last after the loss. "I could easily have done the same again. The path was clear. But it ...
The longing to see right prevail and wrong punished is arguably one of the fiercest human desires. That's why it is nothing less than agonizing to consider that in the case of Donald Trump, justice may have to be sacrificed on the altar of order. That is the argument advanced by Damon ...
Historian David McCullough has left us at 89, a beloved storyteller of presidents and nation-building feats such as the Brooklyn Bridge. Author Douglas Brinkley likened him to "a silver-haired sea captain" steering to the original promises of this land. Social Security was signed into law 87 ...
It isn't true that the new subsidies for buying electric vehicles will only benefit the rich. Even if it were, I wouldn't care. That's because the point of the $7,500 tax credit is to speed the transition to clean energy. It's not to further enrich those who could afford these technologically ...
When 30 FBI agents showed up at Mar-a-Lago to cart off boxes of documents, it was an authorized, legitimate and justified procedure to retrieve national security secrets being illegally kept there. Or it was an unprecedented regime raid on the home and office of the foremost political rival of ...
