“The nation has become spectacularly meaner, to the point that George H. W. Bush is likely to be remembered as the last President of the...

My weekly column in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune ———- In his famous Harper’s magazine essay about American politics, the Pulitzer Prize...

“Crass self-delusion is when you start with an ideological premise that you believe to be true even though it isn’t and then draw...

“It’s up to Trump and his morally dormant Republican Party to ensure that Pittsburgh remains a spasm of the awful past — and not a...

Note: My column this week in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune ———– Just when it seems that our politics can’t possibly produce yet one more...

Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, made the extraordinary admission in court on Tuesday that Mr. Trump had directed him...

“[Putin] became convinced that the Western strategy was a regime change vis-à-vis Russia. That’s his distorted version of history. He...

“This is the United States of America. It isn’t Nazi Germany.” – Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), in an interview on MSNBC, about the Trump...

“We are in a strange place. I mean, it’s almost, it’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it? And it’s not a good place for any party to end...

“I love Jeff Bezos for what he’s done for the Washington Post, but their headline on top of the paper, the motto, ‘democracy dies in...

We don’t know the precise path the next few months will take. There will be resistance and denial and counterattacks. But it seems likely...

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

The President of the United States is a deranged liar who surrounds himself with sycophants. He is also functionally illiterate and...

“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or...

“Not everything done by Lenin was carefully conceived. In particular, he had little foresight about what he was doing when he set up the...

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World ———— I have...

“We were party to a very big lie…Seemingly overnight, we became willing to roll back the ideas on the global economy that have given...

“Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel...

“More than a third of Americans believe that Medicaid is akin to welfare, with the implicit subtext that racial and ethnic minorities are...

“Frequently, people who go along a treasonous path do not know they are on a treasonous path until it is too late.” Former CIA director...