BY JIM HIGHTOWER The negotiations and the sales push behind Washington’s latest [and biggest] “free trade” agreement amounts to Kabuki theater. What theater? Kabuki. It’s a 17th Century form of Japanese drama, featuring elaborate sets and costuming, rhythmic dialogue and stylized acting and dancing. That does, indeed, nicely sum up the White House’s production of […]

BY DAVID PERRYMAN From Duel, the 1971 television movie thriller where a terrified motorist was stalked by a mysterious tanker truck, to Bridge of Spies,...

Third in a six-part series on American politics in the Millennial Age. BY CHRISTIAAN MITCHELL Last week’s article presented two questions that Millennials have to ask...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Now that the chattering class has reminded itself – and its readers, viewers, etc. – just how formidable a candidate Hillary Clinton is, now that the whispers about bad moments have been replaced by the enthusiastic exchange of one rave after another, now that the doubters have let out a sigh of […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH The usual rule in politics is that frontrunners have little to gain and much to lose in debates. Debates put the frontrunner on the same stage as those who have absolutely no chance of winning, elevating the less popular candidates at the expense of the more popular. Debates also give the “lesser” […]