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The Tax Cuts Are Truly a Crummy Deal for Most of Us Feb. 08, 2018
Would someone kindly replace Nancy Pelosi as a spokesperson for Democrats? The House minority leader... Read More
Toward a Trump Republicanism Feb. 02, 2018
Donald Trump's surprisingly good State of the Union speech got a record 70 to 75 percent positive ap... Read More
The Republican Memo Doesn't Spotlight the Real Scandal Feb. 02, 2018
If the president hoped that the memo by Republican staff on the House Intelligence Committee would e... Read More
Will Republican Congress Do More for 'Unlawful' Than Unborn? Jan. 24, 2018
The great humanitarians gathered on the Senate floor this Sunday to demonstrate their passion for pr... Read More
Get Ready for a Congressional Budget Blowout Jan. 23, 2018
No one is paying much attention, but Congress is preparing a two-year budget that would blow past bi... Read More
Republicans Don't Really Want to Fix Immigration Jan. 18, 2018
President Trump and the Republican leadership have made clear that they have no intention of repairi... Read More
Real Federalists Need to Step Up Jan. 18, 2018
You would think that the Justice Department has better things to do than to restart a federal war on... Read More
Democrats Need to Stop Ingesting the Right's Propaganda Jan. 16, 2018
Donald Trump is fabulously adept at taking credit for and exaggerating every bit of good news, espec... Read More
Offshore Drilling and Trump's War on the Environment Jan. 14, 2018
It's rare to see bipartisan agreement on much of anything these days. But an array of Republican and... Read More
Governing While 'Unhinged' Jan. 12, 2018
Restoring the American dream isn't nuts, and neither is our president. Someone tell that to liberals... Read More
Congress Plotting to Cut a Hole in the 4th Amendment, Again Jan. 11, 2018
Hidden beneath the controversy stirred up last week by the publication of a book called "Fire and Fu... Read More
Underestimating Trump Supporters Jan. 05, 2018
It is disheartening to see the ongoing rift between those conservatives supporting President Donald ... Read More
They Can't Win Unless the President Loses Jan. 02, 2018
You know things are bad when the supposedly "loyal opposition" has morphed into the "resistance" and... Read More
Will Tax Cuts Help Republicans in 2018? Dec. 24, 2017
Mitch McConnell thinks the tax bill passed by Congress will put a strong wind into his party's sails... Read More
Republicans Have Reformed Taxes; Will They Fix 1970s Budget Rules Next? Dec. 22, 2017
The Republicans have passed their tax bill, without a single Democratic vote, despite low to dismal ... Read More
America's Getting Greater Dec. 22, 2017
President Donald Trump is loading his sleigh with gifts for the American people this holiday season.... Read More
Republicans Bet the Farm Dec. 22, 2017
President Trump, every Republican senator, and the GOP majority in Speaker Paul Ryan's House just pu... Read More
A Puny Tax Reform Built on Broken Promises Dec. 21, 2017
Modern politics is a steady process of lowering standards, eroding norms and peddling fictions. The ... Read More
No, 'Both Sides' Don't Smear Prosecutors Dec. 19, 2017
In American political journalism, the most comforting bit of conventional wisdom, the phrase that si... 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
