Inflation hasn't gone away — it's going up. With the midterm elections weeks off, that's a problem for the president and Congress. Voters hate inflation. They don't much like the cure either, and the cure has two parts. The Federal Reserve raising interest rates, like it just did, is one. ...
To say that I have seen a lot in my many years in and around politics would be an understatement. I even taught the subject at leading U.S. universities like the University of Virginia, Hampton University and Georgetown University for more than a decade. I remember going to my first major ...
Go ahead, President Donald Trump, keep the Kennedy Center closed. Don't give it money for necessary repairs. This is low-hanging fruit for Americans done with your extortion schemes. They don't have to submit to small-bore intimidation like this. They can just shrug at the demand that your ...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement—he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to ...
One of the challenges with writing about the war in — and on — Ukraine is that so little changes. I don't mean the fighting on the ground, though even there, when viewed from a distance, it doesn't look as though much has shifted in a long while. Russia has gained very little territory in ...
PARIS — A word about Sept. 11, 2001 — 25 years later. And the day that launched my career. My first ever column was written about 9/11 and the heroes who emerged from its ashes. It was also the place where I thought I was literally going to die, just a few years later, as a result of the ...
