No subject inflames political passions more than the powerful inflationary pressures that now squeeze every working family – and nobody likes to talk about inflation more than Republicans, who have reason to believe that rising prices will lift their political boats next November. Polls show that Americans furious over the costs of gasoline, food, housing […]

President Joe Biden warned China that if it helps Russia in its savagery against Ukraine, the U.S. might apply sanctions to Chinese products. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman expanded on that thought: Sanctions imposed on Russia should give President Xi Jinping “a pretty good understanding of what might come his way should he, […]

The United States added 431,000 new jobs last month, a sign, we are told, of how healthy the economy is. You could have fooled me. I’m not a numbers cruncher. I’m talking about how the economy feels, which translates pretty directly into how voters vote. And it doesn’t feel healthy, not at all. A big […]

Barry Goldwater, considered a right-wing extremist and fringe candidate in 1964, won the 1964 Republican presidential nomination by declaring that “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!” But the GOP is now way beyond the fringe, declaring that nuttiness in defense of extremism is no vice. Consider Ginni Thomas. Her recent far-out political role […]

President Joe Biden seems intent on easing entry into the United States at the politically worst possible time. It’s not impossible that he has a plan to keep order after he ends Title 42, which has made it harder for asylum seekers to enter the country. Even if he manages to skillfully handle what will […]