Opinion: ‘Zuckerbucks’ make elections more secure, no matter what red states say
Democracy isn’t free. Tell that to the more than half the states that have banned or limited donations to the roughly 8,000 county and municipal…
Opinion: What’s convincing voters that the economy is worse than ever?
One of the worst things about democracy is the way we talk about it. For instance, politicians love to talk about unity, but our constitutional…
Opinion: The ideal beach read? It’s not what you’d expect
I’ve been a reader for nearly all of my life, yet I always feel perplexed at the beginning of summer, when the term “beach reads”…
Opinion: Trump’s assassination lie, and Biden’s missed moment
On Tuesday evening I was stopped mid-task, stunned, when I saw the subject line on a new fundraising email from Donald Trump: “They were authorized…
Opinion: Voters, take note: Our judicial system is on the 2024 ballot
Democrats will be lucky to keep control of the U.S. Senate after November’s elections. Yet Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. lately has shown…
Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid address Harrison Butker speech controversy
More than a week after making headlines with his controversial commencement address at Benedictine College, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker attended his team’s first…
Opinion: Whatever Big Oil wants, Big Oil gets. As long as it bankrolls Trump
What better sign could there be that we’re drowning in political outrage, that we’re inured to it, than this: A national newspaper scooped this month…
Opinion: Supreme Court’s conservatives unplugged, unrepentant
It’s that time of year when the life-tenured denizens of America’s imperial court, otherwise known as the Supreme Court, come down from their bench to…
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…