The fate of the Trump administration — and perhaps Republicans in Congress — is tethered to how Americans feel about the economy. And right now, it's hard to find anyone who can say with confidence what the hell is going on. Thursday offered a fresh reminder of the chaos. As The Wall ...
Jackie Kennedy Onassis once said, "If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." Even though it's my sixth book that was published last week, I still feel I've done something wonderful. Why? Because my first five books were fiction, and "The Raffel Ticket: ...
Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028. He shares his thoughts in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. It's the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton announced in his 1996 State of the Union ...
Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite at the height of broadcast news. This makes it ...
Several of you responded to my "Sunday thought" by saying that the first step out of the mess we're in is to get rid of the Supreme Court's bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that corporations are people — entitled to the same First Amendment ...
There's no mystery why Zohran Mamdani wanted to get along with Donald Trump. The president threatened New York City with funding cuts, deployment of federal forces and other unpleasantries if its voters elected the self-described democratic socialist as mayor. But why after calling Mamdani all ...