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Robert B. Reich

In light of my recent Substack post about Trump's plans for a Trump rally on the mall to celebrate the start of America's 250th birthday festivities — designed, in his words, for "patriots" and promising to be "wild" — several of you wanted to know more about how it's being planned and ...

Daniel McCarthy

A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and appears to incite arson attacks against dozens of churches. No, this isn't the latest headline out of Minnesota — look a little further north. In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of ...

Froma Harrop

How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed. It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, Dinah ...

Tim Graham

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize ...

Letters to the editor

The Irrational Fundamentalists Editor, There’s a subset of Christianity known as Christian fundamentalists where around 80% support a corrupt and criminal Republican administration. As long as this administration supports in some way the Christian fundamentalist agenda of anti-abortion, anti-homosexuality, anti-trans sexuality, and anti-same sex marriage, they will vote Republican and ignore the corruption. But why are they against most abortions and sometimes against all abortions? They invoke the sanctity of life and quote the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill,” yet, ...

Mona Charen

The Orwellian 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Trump has created — the legal equivalent of twirling the combination lock on Fort Knox and driving off with gold bars — purports to be righting a wrong. The bogus (and badly written) "settlement agreement," which is laughable as there was no true ...