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Court warns of values slipping away

Late in the new Broadway show “Operation Mincemeat,” the sparklingly inventive musical comedy based on British Intelligence’s deception of Adolf Hitler about Allied war plans during World War II, the marvelous slapstick pauses momentarily. “If people like us just blindly follow orders,” one of the characters warns, “the fascists won’t need to bash the door down. They’ll have already won.” At a recent performance, the line drew a wave of audience applause that lasted nearly a minute before the actors could continue. One-half of Americans see the daily flood of ...

April is a revolution month

Greetings from the eye of the storm. Is the time right for a second American Revolution? The first broke out 250 Aprils ago in Lexington and Concord. Let’s conjure up Paul Revere’s midnight ride in this dark hour. Our ruler makes the English king, George III, look like a sweet prince. President Donald Trump’s brazen revenge spree is unstoppable until citizens rise and the courts act in concert. On, Wisconsin. Congress, just you wait for the 2026 midterms. A new revolution won’t happen on Zoom. Nonviolent resistance — showing up en masse — goes a long way in the town ...

Tariffs and economic turmoil

President Donald Trump supporters think the President always strategizes ahead of others — like multidimensional chess. Trump critics think the man who beat Democrats twice is too stupid to think, much less strategize. Those closest to Mr. Trump say he is doing what he does best — going with his gut, letting others fight it out in front of him, then deciding and often improvising. That sounds closest to the truth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen more than one thousand points only eleven times. Four of those times have come after what Mr. Trump called “Liberation ...

The shots that changed the world

The iconic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” begins, “Listen, my children ...” And, sure enough, we have long told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in April 1775, when the famous silversmith warned the countryside of approaching British troops and the American Revolution kicked off in earnest. Like all legendary events, Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord have been encrusted with myth: It’s almost certainly not the case that Revere yelled, “The British are coming!” (we still considered ourselves British); ...

In this new orthodoxy, globalism is morality

If you had told anti-globalist protesters from 25 years ago that their ideological heirs would be MAGA fans rallying behind a billionaire with gold-plated toilets, they would’ve shot their organic carrot juice out their nose in disbelief. Back then, anti-globalism was all granola, gas masks and “Down with the IMF” signs. Nobody would have expected Donald Trump - the guy gracing tabloids for yacht parties and messy divorces - to ever, in a million years, become the face of the movement. But fast-forward a few decades, and the revolution’s wearing a red baseball cap and yelling ...

Hegseth finds himself under fire again

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finds himself under fire again — this time from political skeptics or foes across the political spectrum. But just as the case was during the recent presidential transition period, when Trump opponents resuscitated the discredited 2018 Brett Kavanaugh/Christine Blasey Ford playbook in an attempt to derail Hegseth’s nomination, the stakes now are much higher than Hegseth’s job security helming the Pentagon. When he was up for the nomination, Democrats and their corporate media allies went all in in an attempt to destroy Hegseth. Like the ...