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No Defense for the Indefensible -- but Trump Team Tries Anyway Jul. 09, 2025
President Donald Trump and his acolytes need to learn that the days of falsely blaming the deep stat... Read More
Cruising Along with Ted Cruz May. 29, 2024
A Republican senator once tried excusing the egomaniacal right-wing nastiness of his colleague, Ted ... Read More
Mr. Speaker, No Time To Abandon Policy That Made America Great Nov. 01, 2023
I was gratified to learn that Mike Johnson, the newly elected Republican speaker of the House of Rep... Read More
Romney Exposes the Trumpian Rot Destroying the GOP From Inside Sep. 19, 2023
After a long and remarkable political career that included a governorship in one state, a U.S. Senat... Read More
The Damage Wrought by Our Nation's Top Law Schools Apr. 12, 2023
With their graduates occupying eight of nine seats on the U.S. Supreme Court, Yale and Harvard law s... Read More
The Border Crisis Can Only Get Worse if Congress Fails to Offer Realistic Solutions Dec. 06, 2022
The crisis prompted by hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers swarming into the United States could... Read More
Assorted Nuts Sep. 21, 2022
Let me say one word to you: Nuts. Now, let me say a name to you: Ted Cruz. They've become synonymous... Read More
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Alienable Rights Apr. 06, 2022
In a written response she presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson p... Read More
Insurrection Was Domestic Terrorism, Regardless of What Tucker Carlson Says Jan. 12, 2022
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz rarely earns credit from this newspaper for anything he says or does,... Read More
Seven Senators Who Go Back to Civil War Days Dec. 15, 2021
WASHINGTON — When I walk by John Calhoun in the Capitol, I stare at his severe portrait and as... Read More
It's Long Past Time for the Senate Ethics Panel To Address Hawley's Jan. 6 Actions Nov. 30, 2021
Ten months after a group of Senate Democrats lodged ethics complaints into the conduct of Republican... Read More
Sour Smell of Success: A President Under Attack for Doing What He Was Elected To Do Nov. 09, 2021
For a guy who seems to be doing exactly what he was elected to do, President Joe Biden finds himself... Read More
Antidote to March Mar. 06, 2021
In the New England where I grew up, March was an unpopular month — wet, muddy, cold and, with ... Read More
The GOP's Shameful War on Voters Mar. 03, 2021
As a general rule, I don't agree with Republican lawmakers, since they're generally wrong. But after... Read More
The Big-Tent GOP Is Officially Turning Itself Into a Circus Sideshow Mar. 02, 2021
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak Sunday in Orlando, Florida, at the Conservative ... Read More
What Was He Thinking? Feb. 25, 2021
Everybody always says, "Why did they do it?" but that's usually the easy part. In one way or another... Read More
Before They Vote for You, They First Have to Like You Feb. 20, 2021
Bill Cohen, the former Republican three-term U.S. senator and U.S. representative from Maine, never ... Read More
Does Sen. Ted Cruz Really Look Like Texas? Feb. 13, 2021
While glued to the coverage, both riveting and chilling, of the Senate trial of former President Don... Read More
'Capitolnacht': Darkness on the Nation's Doorstep Jan. 13, 2021
America has our own "Capitolnacht." It shall cut and burn our conscience as Kristallnacht, the Night... Read More
Who's Really Behind the Desecration of Our Capitol? Jan. 13, 2021
What exploded in our nation's Capitol on Jan. 6 is an outrage, a desecration of America's democratic... Read More
