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How Scary Is It Out There? Maybe World War III Scary Jun. 19, 2025
WASHINGTON — Are we headed for World War III? Steve Bannon, the one-time chief strategist to P... Read More
Don't Let Him Feb. 06, 2025
In an insightful column last week entitled "Don't Believe Him," Ezra Klein unearthed an old intervie... Read More
Kash As King: A Hatchet Man Comes To Town Dec. 17, 2024
It's in vogue since Donald Trump's election last month to suggest that using words like "autocrat" o... Read More
Bannon Reveals Plot Against America Jul. 15, 2022
In the world according to former President Donald Trump and his apologists, the former president sin... Read More
Unhappy Anniversary: Marking the Deplorables' Opening Act Jan. 04, 2022
This week's anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attempt by former President Donald Trump's loyalists to... Read More
Guilty Party: Big Don's Cosa Nostra Takes The Fifth Dec. 21, 2021
Some say that former President Donald Trump lacks principles, but that's unfair. If there's one prec... Read More
Just a Little Treason: Trump and Co. Play Hide-the-Putsch Nov. 16, 2021
In "Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy," biographer Larry Tye recounts what... Read More
What Merrick Garland Must Do Now Oct. 14, 2021
The coming weeks will be the most consequential of Merrick Garland's life — not just for the a... Read More
Presidential Mercy Is a Woefully Inadequate Remedy for Injustice: The Controversy Over Trump's Pardons and Commutations Highlights Longstanding Problems With Clemency Jan. 27, 2021
When Donald Trump pardoned Steve Bannon last week, the outgoing president blocked the former White H... Read More
Smearing Joe Biden, 2016 Style Oct. 03, 2019
Not only is Joe Biden innocent of any wrongdoing in Ukraine — as almost every legitimate news ... Read More
A Tale of Two Foundations Dec. 19, 2018
Nobody ought to be surprised to hear of the belated demise of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a rack... Read More
A Few Divorce Tips for Steve Bannon Jan. 10, 2018
It occurred to me this week that many of us who've gone through a divorce could be mighty helpful ri... Read More
Bannon Goes Belly up, and the Stock Market Soars Jan. 09, 2018
There were two big money-and-politics stories in the first week of the new year: The Dow Jones indus... Read More
Waiting for the Bomb Cyclone, Fire and Fury Jan. 05, 2018
WASHINGTON — We huddle by the warmth, waiting for the bomb cyclone to blast the East Coast as ... Read More
Don't Dance on Bannon's Grave Yet Jan. 05, 2018
President Donald Trump's official statement about Steve Bannon — the lack of exclamation point... Read More
The Roller Coaster That Is the Trump Administration Jan. 05, 2018
We are not one week into the new year, and it's already a roller coaster. The Dow Jones industrial a... Read More
If Only the GOP Had Nominated a Conservative Dogcatcher in Alabama Dec. 19, 2017
In the entire ruby-red state of Alabama there was only one reliably conservative Republican candidat... Read More
Picking the Lock in Alabama Dec. 15, 2017
Turnout would be the key to which of the wildly conflicting polls would best presage the result of A... Read More
Alabama Drama Ends on a Sweet Note Dec. 15, 2017
Sweet home Alabama. The rock 'n' roll song serenaded a swath of Democrats jubilantly watching the s... Read More
It Wasn't All Steve Bannon Dec. 13, 2017
Republican politics was starting to feel like a version of Mel Brooks' "The Producers." In the play,... Read More
