The best convention speech I’d ever heard – Ted Kennedy’s in 1980 – was delivered at the first convention I ever covered. Madison Square Garden literally thrummed. But last night, without even a live audience, Michelle Obama was better. And hers wasn’t a...
Here’s what I don’t get: How can the criminal-in-chief possibly believe that sabotaging the popular U.S. Postal Service – on the eve of an election in the midst of a pandemic, no less – will endear him to voters? I’m serious about calling...
By Chris Satullo Frightening fact: Americans still fall for the old Nigerian prince email scam to the tune of $700-plus thousand a year. (FWIW, the fake Nigerian in the photo is the guy on the right.) Dear esteemed and benevolent sir or madam, I am writing you on an...
Donald Trump’s meteoric rise from con artist to commander was fueled by his racist lie that President Obama was a foreigner. Now he thinks that since the slur worked once, he should hurl it at another person of color. Hence his riff yesterday about Kamala...
Even in the darkness of Donald Trump’s dystopia, the enduring promise of America has still flickered. Despite all his cult’s efforts to turn back the clock to the good old days of white hegemony, the pluralistic multiracial melting-pot America has still...
