“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Donald J. Trump, meeting with members of Congress about...

I’ve spent the last two weeks on a 3,000 mile road trip through nine very rural western and southwestern states – flyover country for...

I took a political pilgrimage last week to an out-of-the-way little town in my native state. I’ve taken similar trips in the past to...

On the downhill side of the Gilded Age in American political and business life – that would have been in the late 1800’s – progressive...

One particularly chilling scene in the outstanding new film Margin Call takes place when the CEO of a big banking house, played with cool...

I don’t normally pay a great deal of attention to the political opinions of Hollywood personalities. So I confess I missed the initial...

On Wall Street and the NCAA The nation’s political chattering classes have had plenty to chatter about over the last couple of weeks –...

The great Nebraska Senator George Norris (that’s him in the photo) had many ideas during his long years of public service. His ideas and...