One of the most difficult-to-explain idiosyncrasies of Donald Trump as president is how he has allowed Sean Spicer to stay in his job as press secretary. Never has a Whi...
Despite recent revelations that Fox News and anchor Bill O’Reilly had settled five complaints of sexual harassment against him to the tune of millions, his ratings went ...
With much of the world — thanks to social media — appalled at United Airlines for having a passenger dragged off a Chicago-to-Louisville, Ky. flight, we’re reminded of t...
If you’re still laboring over your tax forms to meet the April 18 filing deadline, here’s a comforting thought: Unless you made well over $1 million — and unless your fi...
The circumstantial evidence is mounting that the Kremlin succeeded in infiltrating the U.S. government at the highest levels.
How else to explain a newly elected presid...
As a Baby Boomer, I was weaned on the righteous glory of World War II, then chastened by Vietnam, a misguided, confused conflict that still haunts many Americans, as wel...
President Trump did the right thing, the necessary thing, in striking Syria’s Shayrat Air Base in response to the Assad regime’s gruesome gas attack on civilians.
In so ...
White House official Steve Bannon is off the National Security Council, in a reversal of what had been an eyebrow-raising decision to put the president’s top political a...
So now President Donald Trump is a war leader. His decision to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles across an international border is an act of war. And, like most of Amer...
For euphemism, dissimulation and outright hypocrisy, there is nothing quite as entertaining as the periodic Senate dust-ups over Supreme Court appointments and the filib...