Every four years, we get a faux Michael Bloomberg boomlet. It’s a tiresome tradition, and it never lasts very long. His aides leak word that he’s toying with a presidential bid, pundits flood the zone with speculation, but at the end of the day, having crunched the...
Did you happen to notice the other day that Donald Trump officially confessed to crimes? That he acknowledged, in a court settlement, that he’d looted his own charitable foundation for personal and political gain? That he raised nearly $3 million for military veterans...
The lesson of the ’19 state elections confirmed the lesson of the ’18 congressional midterms: Donald Trump can stage all the demagogic rallies he wants, and bask to his heart’s content in the Pavlovian applause of his acolytes, but he’s powerless to reverse the GOP’s...
When the news broke yesterday that Trump “ambassador” Gordon Sondland had miraculously refreshed his memory about the impeachable scheme in Ukraine, I was reminded of a scene in Bullitt, the Steve McQueen cop flick best known for its iconic car chase. A crime had...
Speaking in 1910, former two-term president Theodore Roosevelt, who knew a few things about politics, offered some practical advice that Elizabeth Warren and today’s progressive Democrats would be wise to heed. Although they probably won’t. Teddy said: “The citizen...
