In sharp contrast to its impressive performance with the CARES Act, which was passed in less than two weeks, Congress’s attempt at a second ma…
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Am I in Hell, or just L.A.?
A few years back, the now disgraced comedian Louis C.K. had a viral bit about how “everything is amazing and no one is happy.”
The 2000 race for the White House came down to a hairbreadth result in a single state, Florida.
In response to credible reports that President Donald Trump has derided fallen U.S. soldiers as “losers” and “suckers,” the least I could do i…
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Who is a moderate now? Who’s a centrist?
There's been much gnashing of teeth since the state announced that just 21 social equity applicants had qualified for regional lotteries that …
When The Military Times released new survey results last week showing President Donald Trump’s falling support among service members, it seeme…
With each passing day, there is more reason to think that President Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration may issue an emergency use aut…
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man wealthy, healthy and wise,” is a saying of Benjamin Franklin’s, meaning he must have gone to bed ear…
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Unless we just missed it when he signed voting and civil rights legislation, desegregated the military and made Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth…
Today's politics reminds me of the Eagles song, Best of My Love. In particular the lyric from that song, "you see it your way I see it mine, b…
Labor Day kicks off the final stretch toward the Election Day showdown between incumbent President Donald Trump and the Democratic challenger,…
At least the media haven’t politicized the weather reports – yet.
This Labor Day we should celebrate America’s hard working men and women, especially the nurses, supermarket clerks, and other frontline worker…
When powerful special interests believe they can “influence and reward” politicians, it usually does not bode well for the rest of us.
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Nicholas Goldberg: Why we should abolish political conventions now, while they’re fresh in our minds
Now that they’re over, let’s be honest about political conventions.
The times are so strange, so confusing, so upside-down that it is easy to miss what counted most at the two national political conventions con…
With the convention season ending and the sprint to November about to begin, it might be useful to look once again at the 2016 presidential ex…
For the longest time, President Donald Trump seemed all but unable to figure out who he was running against. But the renewed urban unrest, wit…
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