Thirty-five years ago this week, my father passed away at the age of 43. Fifty years ago this week, my baby brother was born. He never saw his 43rd birthday, dying unexp...
WASHINGTON — We are defining prosperity down — or, more accurately, prosperity is defining itself down. We are eight years into the recovery from the Great Recession, th...
Maybe we have been making this whole “why does President Trump do what he does?” thing too complicated.
Albert Einstein said, “The definition of genius is taking the com...
With near unanimity, my never-Trump friends confess a sense of relief. It could have been worse. They thought it would be worse. A deep apprehension still endures but th...
In a rare post-2016 public venting on CNN, Hillary Clinton made it perfectly clear on Tuesday why she lost the presidency to the unfit, unprepared, unlikely likes of Don...
It should have been obvious, but I missed it: Steve Bannon has been banished and Dennis Rodman is whispering in the president’s ear.
OK, maybe not, but it could explain ...
Democrats defeated President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress with a spending-bill deal suiting their political druthers, or so it is said. The truth is that all...
Remember March, when Democrats were in a swivet over President Trump’s budget proposal — the one that threatened to gut the Environmental Protection Agency, eliminate fu...
Republicans have put on a clinic on over-promising during the past several years.
Even if you were paying only very little attention, you would have gotten the distinct ...
J.C. Penney, American Apparel, Radio Shack, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Limited. All closing stores in 2017. This is creative destruction, led by the growth of e-commerce g...