Trump is overplaying his hand. Not just by usurping the powers of Congress and ignoring Supreme Court rulings. Not just abducting people who are legally in the United States but have put their name to opinion pieces Trump doesn't like and trucking them off to "detention" facilities. Not just ...
As the late senator from Washington state, Warren Magnuson, who served for more than 30 years in Congress, once said, "All that each industry seeks is a fair advantage over its rivals." Wilt Chamberlain had a fair advantage on the basketball court because he stood 7-foot-1. It allowed him to score 100 points in a single game. The Trump 2.0 tax bill now moving through Congress should establish a fair advantage for U.S. companies. Tariffs are, of course, Donald Trump's retaliatory stick to stop foreign countries from discriminating against goods and services made in America. Everything ...
No sooner had the first American pope been selected Thursday than a modern tradition unfolded: the scrubbing of Robert Francis Prevost’s X feed. Previously a little-known cardinal from the Chicago area, Prevost was selected by his brother cardinals after several rounds of voting to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. He took the name of Leo XIV (thus forgoing the chance to be history’s first Pope Bob). His selection in the pomp of a Vatican conclave was a surprise not only because it was unprecedented. It had also been widely assumed that due to the global unpopularity of ...
Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in "Coriolanus" and other plays. A personal favorite of mine was "Fiorello!", a 1959 musical about New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. What happened in Newark last week was political theater at its ...
At least six congressional Republicans are demanding a radical fix in the 2017 tax law targeting residents of high-income states. If they don't get it, they may sink Donald Trump's tax-and-spending package, his "one big beautiful bill." And who can blame these reps from New York, New Jersey ...
Hard to believe, but President Donald Trump seemed to be just making it up this past week, selling Americans the line that the bad economic news was, in fact, good economic news. Ever the real estate salesman and historically practiced at the art of con-artistry, he claimed that the collapse of financial markets since his inauguration, negative economic growth for the first time in three years and lowest level of consumer confidence since the pandemic were all signs of a terrific state of affairs. "We're doing really well," said the president, who asked Americans to thank him for ...
