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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Aug. 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it "closing the gaps" in "abortion rights protections." Abortion foes call it "abortion until birth," making it legal to dismember fully formed babies, limb from ...
