Trump’s Jerusalem triumph

Trump’s Jerusalem triumph

In the second century A.D., Jewish rebels who had stunned the Romans and liberated a portion of Judea overstruck imperial coins with images and a message of their own, “Year One…

  • Turnout is fair game

    Turnout is fair game

    It’s not something he does very often, but this time President Donald Trump was telling the truth when, in his rambles before the gun nuts — aka the National Rifle Association…

  • Buying democracy

    Buying democracy

    Let’s face it, the United States of America’s government is not a democracy like the textbook propaganda claims. No matter the intent of the founders, we have evolved into…

  • The Republican high-water mark

    The Republican high-water mark

    If Republicans aren’t losing their congressional majority this coming fall, they are doing a good job of acting like it. Dozens of Republicans are leaving the House, and last…

  • Trump’s Nobel can wait

    Trump’s Nobel can wait

    Who would have guessed that a Trump crowd 15 months into his presidency would be chanting, “Nobel! Nobel! Nobel!” As in Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist…

  • Leaked lies

    Leaked lies

    There’s one aspect of the saga about the newly released batch of Jim Comey memoranda that I totally love. First, a bit of background. In one of the contemporaneous memos the then-FBI…