BY JOE CONASON Some blessed day, America will be rid of the Trump Administration. But the “normalization” of misconduct by this president’s entourage will leave indelible stains – one of which will bear the name Jared Kushner. Unlike his constantly blithering and blabbering father-in-law, Kushner usually goes about his self-serving business in the White House…
BY SUSAN ESTRICH “Lock her up” was the rallying cry a year ago, led by the newly elected president. “Lock her up,” Democrats are saying now that senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump has committed the same [non-cardinal] prayer, having also used a private email server to maintain some small chance of privacy and security….
BY JIM HIGHTOWER America’s political history has been written in the fierce narrative of war – not only our country’s many military clashes with foreign nations, but also our own unending war for democracy in the U.S. Generation after generation of moneyed elites have persisted in trying to take wealth and power from the workaday…
BY FROMA HARROP Phony “news” stories aren’t the only toxic content being spread on social media these days. Bad people are pitching digitally touched-up rear ends and modified thighs as real, dismaying teens and young women unable to attain what’s being sold as perfection. Public anger at the ills unleashed by social media currently burns…
BY FROMA HARROP Mark Zuckerberg in 2006: “We really messed this one up. … We did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them.” Zuckerberg in 2010: “Sometimes we move too fast. … We will add privacy controls that are much simpler…
