It took three votes – and a scathing, 56-page report from the House Ethics Committee – to convince the requisite two-thirds majority necessary to expel a pathological liar from the House of Representatives. The question is not whether he deserved to be expelled, but what took so long. He has been charged with multiple felonies, […]

You may have noticed in recent weeks that alarming headlines about inflation – specifically, those ubiquitous stories about the cost of gasoline, or eggs, or other household goods – have vanished. Media outlets no longer feature those fearsome charts with arrows zooming skyward, or video loops displaying the latest eye-popping gas station signage. Much as […]

After Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, gang-raped teens and kidnapped hundreds of innocents, 30 student groups at Harvard issued a statement reading, “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” The anger that followed went beyond this dismissal of Isis-type barbarity. It pursued Harvard president Claudine Gay after she […]

Let me be blunt: The problem with today’s Supreme Court is that it consists of too many 5-watt bulbs sitting in 100-watt sockets. While most of the nine members are assumed to be brilliant, “smart” is as smart does, and this court’s right-wing majority wallows in stupid, consistently pushing plutocracy, autocracy and theocracy over the […]

She is the candidate who Democrats fear most, precisely because she is the least scary of the Republicans. Not the most moderate, by far; that would be Chris Christie. But it is hard to see the Republican Party – and especially its right-wing core – picking the most moderate candidate in the field. Haley’s appeal […]