Opinion: ‘Diaper Don’? Trump supporters turn tables on puerile critics
The political ascendance and staying power of Donald Trump have forced this country to confront so many existential questions: Can our democracy survive another Trump…
Opinion: Stormy Daniels’ well-deserved place in American history
Last week, after Stormy Daniels spent nearly eight hours over two days testifying in former President Trump’s hush money trial in New York, the time…
Opinion: U.S. elections have integrity. One party’s politicians do not
Here they go again. Six months before election day, for the third straight presidential contest, Donald Trump and his Republican lickspittles are sounding alarms about…
Opinion: Trump promises to subvert the law — first by freeing Jan. 6 criminals
Trump, reelected, will subvert the law — first by freeing the Jan. 6 insurrectionists Of all the promises that Donald Trump has made for a…
Will our politicians EVER wake up to the pressure from mass immigration?
Migrant messWILL our politicians ever wake up to the pressure from mass immigration? About 90 per cent of our housing crisis is caused by the…
Opinion: How many ways can a memoir backfire? Ask Kristi Noem
Not to beat a dead, ah, horse, but how can we ignore the spectacle that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has made of herself during…
Opinion: Is the Los Angeles City Council serious about ethics reform?
Los Angeles city government has a corruption problem. Since 2020, three L.A. council members and a former deputy mayor were found guilty of or pleaded…
Local elections were bleak for the Tories – but all is not lost for Rishi Sunak
Last ditch RishiDESPITE understandable attempts to spin the results, last week’s elections were — if not totally catastrophic — bleak indeed for the Tories. Holding…
Opinion: Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad second term
Millions of us are justifiably focused on seeing that Donald Trump is held to account for what he’s allegedly done in the past. Scheming to…
Opinion: GOP women try to answer the question: Who’s the most macho?
Slaughtering wolves from helicopters? Castrating hogs? Shooting up Priuses with assault weapons? Murdering misbehaving puppies? Is this what it takes for a Republican woman to…
How the Supreme Court left less hope for a Trump Jan. 6 trial
For those rightly concerned about the timing of Donald Trump’s federal Jan. 6 trial, Thursday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court gave plenty of reasons…
Opinion: Speaker Mike Johnson sings ‘Kumbaya’ with the Democrats
No one could have predicted that the worst Congress in memory would morph into the Kumbaya Congress. Or that Mike Johnson, the accidental House speaker…
Opinion: Antiabortion absolutists could drag California back to the 19th century
In his entertaining 2019 book, “How to Become a Federal Criminal,” the criminal defense attorney Mike Chase offers dozens of examples of inane or outdated…
Opinion: Hapless House Republicans weaponized impeachment. It backfired
Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but the hapless House Republicans have finally achieved something big: an end to tit-for-tat impeachments. Of course,…
European Public Opinion on the Eve of the 2024 European Parliament Elections
As the 2024 European Parliament elections approach on June 9th, public sentiment across the European Union offers a fascinating glimpse into the electorate's mood just…
Opinion: Trump 1.0 made some world leaders laugh. Trump 2.0 terrifies them
Not a joke, as Joe Biden might say. I’m talking about our country: America is no joke, no matter how many times Donald Trump claims…
Opinion: Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir suggests a #MeToo reckoning
Retribution seems to be all the rage these days on the right, given Donald Trump’s chilling vow that it will be the driving force of…
Opinion: Would you buy a $60 Bible from this man?
Holy huckster: Just in time for Easter, the holiest day of the Christian calendar, Donald Trump started hawking Bibles — in the same month that…
Opinion: Worst Congress ever? Let’s count the ways
More than halfway through the current two-year Congress, the “lawmakers” there bring to mind the old schoolyard quip about slacker students: They’re really good at…
China’s relentless cyber war is a direct challenge to Western democracy – these state-sponsored attacks must be stopped
China crisisTHE extent of China’s cyber war against the West is laid bare by accusations that its hackers accessed the personal details of 40million British…