I just finished writing a column about how the internet is vile and vicious and people have become poisonous vipers in the privacy of their basements. It was in direct r...
Despair about Congress is as old as the nation itself. In 1789, less than three months into the First Congress, Rep. Fisher Ames of Massachusetts wrote that he “felt cha...
“Contrary” does not quite capture Steve King’s astringency. The Iowa native and conservative congressman was born, appropriately, in Storm Lake, and carries turbulence w...
Donald Trump, the erstwhile Democrat, independent and member of the Reform Party, finally has a fixed partisan identity.
The president may be besieged, unpopular and pro...
Wednesday’s shooting at a congressional baseball practice was a ghastly example of the political polarization that is ripping this country apart. Political scientists ha...
In one of Walker Percy’s brilliant novels, “The Second Coming,” protagonist Will Barrett keeps falling down for no apparent reason. He also suffers trances during which ...
The Trump administration is determined to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) — which created a single market from Mexico’s southern border to th...
I’m having a hard time seeing former FBI director James Comey as a victim.
Don’t get me wrong: Ask me who I think has more credibility between Comey and his nemesis, Pre...
Fifty years ago, in early June, 1967, the Beatles’ eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, made its way to American ears for the first time. Recorded...
As it turns out, Donald Trump is the hope-and-change president.
According to James Comey, Trump hoped that the then-FBI director would find a way to drop his investigati...
