BY SHARON MARTIN “We have the highest tax rate in the world,” Donald Trump said last week on Fox News. If his rude speech and bombastic...

BY JOE CONASON To watch Hillary Clinton’s Republican antagonists during Thursday’s public hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi was to wonder how they could possibly behave the way they did. As representatives of the American people, they not only failed to fulfill the responsibilities entrusted to them but also exposed their own ignorance […]

BY DAVID PERRYMAN In the 1984 film, Ghostbusters, Dan Aykroyd introduced the world to the Ecto-1, a 1959 Cadillac “combination car” that was large enough...

BY FROMA HARROP Jeb Bush has dropped into single digits in the polls – and that’s just among Republicans in his home state of Florida. What happened to the man with all the money, top name recognition and, according to last year’s political sages, a clear shot at his party’s presidential nomination? The problem is […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH For months I’ve been telling everyone who brings it up to calm down about the summer infatuation with the cartoonish Donald Trump, whose candidacy was perfect fodder for conversation over the barbecue. Then there was the early autumn period, where it still could be dismissed because it was early autumn. These days, […]