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Pooping on the Parade
If he can do it, I can say it. But why did he do it? You know why? The same reason your kids would -- ridicule; mockery. A visible showing of contempt for a significant percentage of what we used to call your fellow Americans.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing it?
I remember speaking at a panel with Newt Gingrich right after his revolution...Read more
'Kings Not on Their Toes Can Be Deposed'
The "No Kings" protest across the nation added up to nearly 7 million people protesting President Donald Trump's reign. Dissent is upon us, catching and spreading.
Shakespeare's King Lear, King Charles I of England and King Louis XVI of France met fates that upended their eras. Two kings literally lost their heads. Here's the deal, straight ...Read more
What if Democrats Started to Support Democrats Again?
When will top Democratic Party officials recognize that today's electorate is not made up of moderate centrists?
Rather, most Americans are anti-establishment rebels who've been knocked down, kicked out and told that they don't matter. Indeed, our country's true political spectrum doesn't run right to left, but top to bottom. Right-wing/left-...Read more
Louisiana's Black Voting Power Is On the Line in Redistricting Fight
When Louisiana finally won a second majority-Black district in 2024, I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. For decades, Black voters like me knew that having only one voting district where we could be heard was not enough to reflect a third of the state's population. So when the state gained a second seat, I thought of those who fought ...Read more
Bag Man: Meet Tough-Talking Tom Homan, Crime Fighter
As the first and only convicted felon to serve as president, Donald Trump's claim to be concerned about crime in America is a somewhat compromised one. And, of course, it's not just the 34 felony counts on which he stands convicted by a New York jury but the federal criminal indictments for violating the Espionage Act, obstructing justice and ...Read more
Mamdani Thinks He Has Integrity. He Does Not
Zohran Mamdani's alleged zinger in last week's New York mayoral debate was a claim that he had "integrity" and his chief opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, did not. The people know Cuomo's glories and missteps. But many have been TikTok-ed out of recognizing Mamdani's two-faced candidacy displaying more calculation than conviction.
Start ...Read more
Hegseth’s New Rules for Journalists Won't Make America Safer
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has done it again.
As his latest outrage touched off an unprecedented revolt by almost every media outlet covering the Pentagon, I once again was reminded of my own Army days when we called it the “five-sided funhouse,” although not within earshot of the “brass,” our superior officers.
The headquarters of...Read more
The Other Demonstration on Saturday
The Marine Corps — under the watchful eyes of JD Vance and Pete Hegseth — staged a demonstration on Saturday in southern California.
It wasn’t a No Kings demonstration, though. It was more like a Yes Kings demonstration.
Some of the Marine Corps’ shells that were fired by M777 howitzers across California’s Interstate 5 prematurely ...Read more
Same Old Stuff
Fresh from his triumph in the Middle East, President Donald Trump returned to Washington and reverted to playing the vengeful monarch, holding a press conference in the White House to announce his enemies' list and demand that they be prosecuted -- for something. Having put in place a personal lawyer of his with no prosecutorial experience who...Read more
Your Questions Answered: How To Push Back on Abuses of Power
In his first nine months back in office, President Donald Trump has abused his power to attack our neighbors and communities, suppress free speech and create a climate of fear. The president has deployed military troops and federal agents into our cities. He has threatened nonprofit organizations, universities and political opponents who don't ...Read more
Pam Bondi Faces Critics, 'Burns' Them
A lot of political figures are understandably nervous about facing a Senate committee probe.
Not Pam Bondi.
In more than four hours of testimony Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee, she responded to the most polite questions with the air of contempt worthy of her boss, President Trump, who tends to react to the idea of accountability as ...Read more
Trump Is Abusing His Power To Build a Dangerous National Policing Force
The Trump administration continues to escalate its deployment of military troops and federal law enforcement to cities across the country. We are witnessing the build-out of a national paramilitary policing force that could be used to intimidate people and consolidate President Donald Trump's power.
This week alone, the administration placed ...Read more
Trump Faces His Generals
When President Donald Trump dropped the bizarre suggestion last week that the military should use American cities as “training grounds” to fight what he called “an enemy within,” it sounded almost like old news.
After all, Trump has talked like this for years. "Don't take him literally," some would say. Or, that's just Trump being Trump...Read more
What's at Stake as the Supreme Court Takes Up Transgender Sports Bans
Over the last five years, politicians across the country have targeted transgender people and our families. They've banned our health care, censored our speech and made schools less safe for transgender students. One of the most consistent focus areas for many of these politicians has been the rights of transgender student athletes, ...Read more
The Conflict Entrepreneurs Behind Our Broken Politics
I have long become accustomed to what I call the "BTMF” reflex whenever a great, newsmaking calamity or outrage happens.
That’s short for “Blame the media first.”
As a long-tenured journalist, I try not to take it personally. Yet sometimes the complainers have a point, and we in the news business would do a better job and provide ...Read more
Protecting Free Speech in the Face of Government Retaliation
The Trump administration is enthusiastically abusing its power to intimidate anyone who criticizes its policies, and to silence those who won't fall in line. Now, using a long-standing government tactic, the administration is leveraging a tragedy to justify its censorship campaign.
The government is villainizing and threatening to punish ...Read more
Free Speech Under Fire Again Because We Need It
Remember when President Trump vigorously defended free speech — before he turned against it?
Remember how he sparked cheers when his second inauguration speech grandly promised to “immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America?”
“Never again ...Read more
Welcome to the World of MAGA Machismo, Where Muscles Trump Brains
Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:
Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more
Trump and his lawyers think he can get away with anything. It's outlandish.
WASHINGTON -- "The king can do no wrong." That is the ancient legal maxim used to explain why a sovereign should not be held to account for misdeeds. President Trump and his lawyers are now making arguments that make this legal doctrine look wimpy. Their vision boils down to: The king can do whatever wrong he damn pleases, and there's nothing ...Read more




















































