There is something clarifying about being far from home. In Cape Town, South Africa, where the mountains meet the sea and the horizon feels endless, distance creates a kind of stillness that invites reflection. But even here, halfway across the world, America is never far away. It lives in the ...
Our elitist media are so devoted to the Democratic Party that the only time you can be confident that a few questions might get tough is when there's a primary election. Once a candidate wins the primary, then all controversies are categorized as desperate Republican distractions and ...
The Republicans' greatest allies are the Democrats. They make error after error and repeat their errors. They say a dog goes back to its poop. Well, maybe that would explain it. In the spirit of March Madness basketball, the Democrats will jump for the "head fake" and simply go the wrong way, ...
Reflection on a stranger’s remark Editor: Last October 18th, I participated with over 800 other local people in the second “No Kings” demonstration on the Portage Bridge. I carried a sign that said, among other things, “No Dictators”. As I was walking back across the bridge, a ...
We've long known that Donald Trump drives his critics crazy, and he's now doing it to some critics who used to be friends. The isolationist right is convinced that President Trump is waging the Iran War in behalf of Israel, which would make him the handmaiden of a foreign power. That ...
No one knows what Trump is going to do from minute to minute, least of all Trump. But it's looking ever more likely he'll be exiting Iran within days, declaring his "excursion" into it (as he's termed his war) a major victory — and then changing the subject. On Friday, Trump posted on his ...