In one month, the United States will observe its 250th birthday. It is shaping up more like a memorial service for a lost loved one than a party to celebrate something special. Rather than anticipating a happy occasion, America at 250 is increasingly characterized by anger, name- calling and ...
America's longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of ...
"Yellow dog" voters are back big-time. Who? In the run-up to the 1892 presidential election, journalist C. H. J. Taylor used the term to refer to western Republicans who, he wrote in The American Citizen, "would vote for a yellow dog out there if he was named Republican." In a 1956 voter ...
Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn't seem to matter. One can fail miserably; one can be corrupt and one can get away with crimes that if committed by someone outside of elective office, arrest, prosecution and a stint in jail would be the result. Yet ...
In light of my recent Substack post about Trump's plans for a Trump rally on the mall to celebrate the start of America's 250th birthday festivities — designed, in his words, for "patriots" and promising to be "wild" — several of you wanted to know more about how it's being planned and ...
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen recently claimed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was "un-American," an announcement that surely surprised the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American citizens who have supported AIPAC, whose forebears and family members served ...
