The job of Congress is not to protect the president. It is to provide a check and balance on presidential power. It’s now obvious that Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., confus...
I’m not a particular fan of the Catholic Church, but I like Pope Francis, who appears to be a simple, devout, humble man who has somehow found himself at the head of a v...
Whether or not U.S. Representative Chris Collins engaged in insider trading, as federal prosecutors allege, his indictment this week exposes what a poor job Congress has...
During the weekend of Aug. 4-5 (and the preceding Friday night), 12 Chicagoans were shot dead, and 62 others were shot and wounded, the Chicago Tribune reported (https:/...
Somewhere in California, Elon Musk is saying — or at least thinking — “I told you so.”
For months now, the notoriously narcissistic founder of Tesla has been in a very p...
The day after Christmas 2001, Sam Waksal, the chief executive of ImClone Systems, began selling off shares in the company after learning that the Food and Drug Administr...
President Donald Trump is making life better for black Americans everywhere you look while his predecessor fumbled. But hey, say his critics, not everything is perfect y...
A few years ago, I wrote a column about Harambe, the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo who was euthanized after a child fell into his enclosure. I thought the mother was neg...
It’s just gotten a little easier for the government to control the weather.
Social media sites moved en masse to ban Alex Jones, the self-parodic conspiracy theorist. Jo...
We struggle to name a human being as awful as the stinking rotten block of cheese in the national refrigerator named Alex Jones. We struggle to name a media outlet as he...
