Imagine you’ve been patiently waiting your turn at, say, the Starbucks. You finally reach the front when a senior citizen strides up and announces that he is next in lin...
CLEVELAND — Like partners in a shotgun marriage, Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s establishment have been preaching unity this week in hopes of enabling their une...
Over the years, I have watched campaigns in third world countries in which one candidate accuses the other of being a criminal, sometimes even threatening to jail his op...
If economic commentators seem to agree on one thing, it is this: Jobs in America have become less secure. If you’ve got an OK job, don’t let go, because you may not be a...
You don’t have to think Donald Trump should be elected president to think those having at some of his supporters are sometimes just plain out of it.
To be sure, they wer...
In the past two weeks, the “war on police” has gone from a metaphor to a reality, with eight officers killed in targeted attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
The country h...
National party conventions, which long ago ceded the job of choosing presidential nominees to the primaries and caucuses, have two remaining jobs.
The first one is publi...
BRUSSELS — The terrorist who decimated a holiday crowd in Nice on Bastille Day was the latest incarnation of the nightmare confronting police in Brussels, Paris, Toulous...
Donald Trump has selected the perfect non-Trump as his running mate.
Mike Pence, the phlegmatic Republican governor of Indiana, has strong credentials with the social r...
Nice, France. Of all places.
But of course a terrorist in love with death would choose one of the world’s most beautiful coastal cities to mow down innocents in a moment...
