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Taking the Disraeli Test Jul. 07, 2018
Benjamin Disraeli, a 19th-century British prime minister and writer, shrewdly advised that to be a s... Read More
The System Doesn't Need to Be 'Fixed' Every Time Dems Lose Jul. 06, 2018
If you're under the impression that the system exists merely to facilitate your partisan agenda, it'... Read More
Trump Tricks Naive Democrats on Immigration Jul. 05, 2018
If I worked for Donald Trump and designed a T-shirt that read "I don't believe in borders" in Spanis... Read More
The Debt Clock Keeps Spinning Jul. 05, 2018
In 1989, a New York businessman who was worried about chronic federal budget deficits erected the Na... Read More
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Off to a Mostly Fabulous Start Jul. 03, 2018
As most everybody knows, a remarkable Bronx resident named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just won a Democ... Read More
Odds and Ends Jun. 30, 2018
Thanks to President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, we learned this week from the nonpartisan Congress... Read More
Women Writing the Summer Story in Politics Jun. 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — She's our own Melania Antoinette, a high-fashion queen living under something lik... Read More
Let's Not Confuse Civility With Surrender Jun. 27, 2018
Before I sat down to write this column about what it means to be civil in today's political climate,... Read More
Can the FBI Be Independent? Jun. 21, 2018
When President Donald Trump appointed Atlanta lawyer Christopher Wray to succeed James Comey as the ... Read More
Ohio: Both Sides of the Political River Jun. 13, 2018
CINCINNATI — I look across the Ohio River and I sigh. The winding river divided America for s... Read More
Polls Apart Jun. 09, 2018
"Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly." Add to Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's timeless wisdom fr... Read More
California Results Suggest Blue Wave Has Crested and Ebbed Jun. 08, 2018
The nation is just past halftime in the 2018 primary election cycle. Twenty states — containin... Read More
When Politics Was Fun Jun. 02, 2018
On Sept. 26, 1960, when Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy and his Republican opponent, Richard Nixo... Read More
Is America's Racial Divide Permanent? Jun. 01, 2018
For Roseanne Barr, star of ABC's hit show "Roseanne," there would be no appeal. When her tweet hit, ... Read More
Tom Wolfe Is Dead, and I Am in Italy May. 24, 2018
Castelvetro di Modena, Italy — On May 14, a star failed to come out. Tom Wolfe passed away tha... Read More
Politics as (Un)usual May. 19, 2018
In Marine Corps jargon, a "duty station" is the military base or camp where a Marine is assigned to ... Read More
Colleges: Anti-Diversity and Pro-Exclusion May. 02, 2018
Just within the past week or so, some shocking professorial behavior has come to light. In the wake ... Read More
Finally, We Can Let Melania Be Melania Apr. 27, 2018
This has been the fortnight of the first ladies. Last week, the focus was on two former first ladies... Read More
Microtrends, Not Politics, Lead the Nation Apr. 26, 2018
If you want to understand where America is heading, a good place to start is with Mark Penn's new bo... Read More
Politics Polarize; Community Unites Apr. 19, 2018
News outlets are routinely filled with commentary and analysis suggesting that 21st-century America ... Read More
