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Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen recently claimed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was "un-American," an announcement that surely surprised the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American citizens who have supported AIPAC, whose forebears and family members served in America's military and fought for their country in ...Read more

The Democrats' apparent choice to replace Maine Republican Susan Collins in the U.S. Senate has built a rap sheet of dazzling disqualifiers.

It wasn't enough that Graham Platner's impersonation of a blue-collar oysterman has been exposed. Turns out he attended the Hotchkiss School, an elite prep school in Connecticut and is grandson of Warren...Read more

President Donald Trump may be the smallest, meanest and most vengeful man to serve in the Oval Office. Every time I think he and his minions could stoop no lower, they surprise me. There is simply no limit to Trump's hunger for vengeance, or the willingness of his minions to do his bidding, no matter how unethical.

The latest is Wednesday's ...Read more

As with the weather, everyone complains about the Democrats, but no one does anything about them. Well, we do point out what the perennial hapless loyal opposition is doing wrong. But we rarely offer useful suggestions for what they ought to do instead.

Democrats are favored to take back the House in this year's midterm elections,...Read more

I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, and I wanted to learn why the Sam Shine Foundation was committed to dam removal. Milltown's dam is not one that will come out...Read more

I used to work with a guy, and every morning, I would greet him the same way.

"Howyadoin'?" I'd say.

"I'm here," he'd answer.

And so, we were. We were there for eight hours, day or night shift, with two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch.

And, after work, we went to places where the job wasn't. Home. Target. A bar.

And in those places...Read more

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 Washington at 39, John Coltrane at 40. Billie Holiday ...Read more

I don't expect very much of President Donald Trump and generally, I'm not disappointed. In so many ways that we have come to take for granted, he is a small man, the antithesis of what we mean by "Presidential." Tall in stature, small in character. That's who we heard from this year on Memorial Day.

His message was garbage, partisan and mean-...Read more

Here in Washington, D.C., we endure slights of the president's barking, his constant use of capital letters and his ever-present red ties. These are forms of shouting, weapons of psychological warfare that he wields as the master of repetition. Then there's the 250-foot Arch he plans to build, which would block the view across Arlington ...Read more

Other than the fact that they are such blood-sucking greedheads, why have today's multibillionaires, high-tech barons of artificial intelligence (AI), become so despised by so many grassroots Americans?

By "so many," I mean they've sparked a hell-raising mass revolt, originating in farm country, spreading through working-class suburbs, into ...Read more

Teyana Gibson Brown was home with her husband, 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old cousin in January when 10 masked and heavily armed federal agents stormed into her house. The federal agents smashed through her front door with a battering ram. They pointed their rifles at Teyana and her family members as she stood in the doorway repeatedly ...Read more

Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending American democracy. So it was exquisitely on-brand for a president who defrauded the U.S. military by fabricating "bone spurs" to evade military service, the only convicted felon we've had ...Read more

For months now, Democrats have been arguing about whether to release the "autopsy" the National Committee commissioned on what went wrong in 2024. The report was completed but then not released; under pressure, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin released the report this week, but only with the caveat that it didn't meet the ...Read more

"Should I stay," the Clash asked, "or should I go?"

When I was a kid, during and following Watergate, the tortured politico's answer to that existential question was the latter. Occasionally. During the 1973 "Saturday Night Massacre," Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus refused to obey Richard ...Read more

My sister Erica and I returned to Montana just a few days after the Bureau of Land Management revoked grazing permits for bison. American Prairie, a nonprofit working to create one of the largest nature reserves in the United States, was the target of that decision.

Erica and I bounced along two-track roads in our Toyota RAV4 rental, hoping ...Read more