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 reality. Spineless...
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, eating and spewing all the food,...
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 charm...
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 George...
