BY SUSAN ESTRICH The conversations are taking place when our kids come back to California, especially if they’re coming from New York. What is it that you see in AOC? And as they tell us, the generational divide always opens to the size of the Grand Canyon. They like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because she speaks…
BY BOB BEARDEN Social Security and Medicare are socialistic programs that benefit our citizens as they were intended. President Trump has released his 2020 proposed budget and it is in the trillions. It includes drastic cuts to Medicaid and Medicare [over a 10-year period], which would directly affect most of the people who voted him…
BY JOE CONASON The unprecedented government shutdown is approaching the end of its first month with no foreseeable relief. The costs and the risks are quickly becoming intolerable. The notion of any upside to this fiasco is absurd. Yet we can at least hope that the American people, often afflicted with historical amnesia, will learn…
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I spent more than a year working to beat him. I thought his campaign manager was about the most unethical person I’d ever met. I knew that the fish rots from the head. I was not a big fan of George H.W. Bush’s. Until I – and much of America – came…
BY FROMA HARROP After a long absence, another “Stock Market up” tweet was issued last week by Donald Trump. He’d been the troubadour singing his own praises when the Dow Jones industrial average hit new highs, but when falling stock prices wiped out most of the gains for 2018, the music stopped. He was back…
