Public sentiment has turned against old leaders so much that a New Yorker cover art shows President Joe Biden, House Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump hobbling on walkers. Three are in their early 80s; Trump is ...
This week Republicans and Democrats got together to avert a government shutdown. Too bad. There's so much that ought to be shut down. Useless Cabinet departments, for example, like Housing and Urban Development, Labor and Agriculture. Agriculture employs almost 100,000 people. Why? ...
The tip-off that House Republicans' cobbled-together opening of their "impeachment inquiry" into President Joe Biden was going to flop came last Wednesday, the day before the first hearing. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R.-Mo., whose unfortunate lot it was to hold a ...
ERIE, Pa. — Two weeks ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman told CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour there is a peculiar disconnect between how the economy is doing and how the public is feeling about it. Amanpour pressed him on why people weren't understanding that they are living in a ...
The 2024 presidential season involves the senior citizens of both parties doing everything they can to prop up two venal, corrupt, narcissistic octogenarians against a crowd of more youthful, energetic and principled alternatives. Right now, the two old oligarchs running up against God's own ...
We've been subjected to years of lectures about how Republicans are a "threat to democracy," but watching the post-debate reactions to the second GOP presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library made you wonder who exactly hates democracy. Like the first debate aftermath, they ...
