By Chris Satullo Democracy getting you down lately? Understandable. But here’s a hopeful thought: No matter how dreadful the presidential campaign gets, you might still be able to have a good election. Wait .. what? Here’s what I mean. Let me share a useful...
During the fake impeachment trial, Chief Justice John Roberts reminded everyone that they were inhabiting “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” a description of the Senate that would be hilarious if it weren’t so detestably at odds with...
Way back in the ’70s, on the original Saturday Night Live, John Belushi played a character called “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave,” so named because of its propensity for crashing a house party, slobbering on the sofa until all hours,...
Once upon a time, on the eve of the 1988 presidential primary season, Des Moines newspaper columnist Donald Kaul shared a blasphemous opinion with his local readers. The first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucus was “a nice little oddball political event with considerable...
What a dire scenario: A corrupt Republican president soaked in scandal wins re-election in part because dimwitted Democrats decide to nominate a small-state senator who’s way too left-wing for the American mainstream. But enough about how Richard Nixon thrashed...
