The woman in the grocery store checkout line had an accent. While we waited for our items to be rung up, I asked her where she was from. "Argentina," she said. "Is the inflation rate in Argentina under 100 percent yet?" I asked. She smiled, " That's what the politicians say, but I never ...
Not exactly a war, but a trade war — which will impose huge costs on both American consumers and on Canada. As I have said, Trump is now completely and utterly out of his mind. The very idea of a trade war with Canada — our neighbor, our ally, our closest friend, a nation that's ...
Thank God, no, we aren't going bust as a nation, despite our gargantuan $40 trillion national debt. The rapid pileup of debt under Republicans and Democrats alike is certainly a disgrace and worrisome. When I came to Washington in the mid-1980s, our debt hit $1 trillion for the first time. ...
Oh good, another war. This time a trade war with Canada and for no other reason than ... what? To give Donald Trump a new stage for big-league bullying? To divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein files? Who knows. Whatever. Trying to humiliate our closest ally does not serve American ...
It's summertime, and the living is uneasy, particularly in Washington newsrooms and bureaus. At this time of year, historically, serious news can be harder to find than the news people available to cover it. The result is what journalists call "the silly season," when you can never guess what ...
The most surprising result in the batch of primaries held last week over the vast stretch of America from Florida through Wyoming to Alaska was the defeat of famed anti-Trump whistleblower Alexander Vindman by state Rep. Angie Nixon in the contest for the Democratic nomination against ...
