It's one of the most toxic and enduring racist myths in American political history. But in awarding cash payments to millions of working... Read More
We have long maintained a policy of not yielding to terrorists, and outsourcing ransom payments does not change the implications of this... Read More
Our digital world wasn't built with security in mind. Read More
While it's true there is a long, bloody history between combatants Israel and Hamas, the current fighting is unique in ways that make the... Read More
New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman and others are grafting a domestic psychodrama onto a foreign region—and endangering American Jews... Read More
President Biden, the oldest man ever elected to the White House, won on the strength of an emerging cohort of younger voters who are... Read More
For progressives who were hopeful that America's most diverse city was ready for change, the most useful question is: what the hell is our... Read More
It is to her credit that she stood up to Trump, but, with the Middle East erupting again, let's be careful that we don't also embrace her... Read More
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today and looking out from a speaker’s stand over our divided nation, he would probably once again... Read More
With long lines at the pump, slowing growth and rising inflation, it's looking like the Jimmy Carter era — except that it took Carter... Read More
Liz Cheney Ouster Would Be a New Low for House Republicans Read More
We already knew Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is dedicated to abortion. Now, we see that his radicalism makes him... Read More
Conflict with Gaza proving a political winner, so far, for the embattled Israeli prime minister; Arab states may take center stage in... Read More
History suggests 2022 may be an election disaster for Democrats, but that's not inevitable. Read More
"Weak leadership is the cause of all of these crises," said Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), citing surging illegal immigration, the Colonial... Read More
A plague of ransomware will continue in every sector until the superpowers step in Read More
Washington must actively manage the Middle East dispute it can't end Read More
It has taken the Democrats all of four months in power to screw up the Middle East, and the good guys in the region are not pleased or... Read More
Dumping Liz Cheney is throwing good resources after bad for the sake of twice-impeached, one-term Donald Trump, the most disgraced and... Read More
Susan Hennessey's appointment suggests the department will be politicized again. Read More
The suburban gentry of Chevy Chase, Maryland, had some difficulty making sense of Brett Kavanaugh’s descent into villainy that fall. He... Read More
I’m biased, because I know Antonio Garcia-Martinez and something like the same thing once happened to me, but the decision by Apple to... Read More
The Daily Show's heyday came at the turn of the century, just after Stewart had taken it over from Craig Kilborn. His approach back then was Read More
Aaron Klein says the US can pay for a big investment in improving infrastructure, but Republicans need to wrestle with the way their... Read More
Break out the eight-track tapes and the disco balls. Inflation in a time of unemployment and gas lines is suddenly giving the economy a... Read More
The former Coinbase CTO argues that Pax Bitcoinica is replacing Pax Americana — and that's a good thing. Read More
Peter Thiel's former portfolio manager says that the crypto narrative is built on half-truths and a nonchalance about the security provided... Read More
When I first met former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory during the summer of 2017, he was still fresh off of his 2016 election loss, when... Read More
Democrats have moved left on Israel. Biden hasn't. Read More
The latest flare-up of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is no different. The proximate causes are a thorny combination of an... Read More
Growing inflation concerns, violence in the Middle East and gas stations sans gas: Republicans love the script the news cycle just handed them because it feels like an easy, low-budget summer reboot. They are desperate to cast Joe Biden as Jimmy Carter, and they point to a cyber-blocked fuel pipeline as the clearest evidence yet of a nation losing ground.Of course, the president rejects the portra Read More
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today and looking out from a speaker’s stand over our divided nation, he would probably once again deliver his Gettysburg speech. All he would need to change is the number of years: “Twelve score and five years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Read More
On the surface, Joe Biden seems to be doing pretty well. But underneath, there are signs of problems, areas where partisan overstretch threatens the underpinnings of what some are hailing as the new order of things. Joe Biden enjoys a 54% average job approval rating, a good mark for a president midterm or facing reelection but below the 100-day numbers of every post-World War II president except Donald Trump. Read More
