Welcome to the Donald Trump Show
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, in Donald J. Trump we finally have a presidential candidate who will keep us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Like a middle-age dad lounging on his couch,...
View ArticleLive, From the Fifth Most Censored Country, It's the First European Games
Rejoice! After years of enviously watching athletes in Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas flaunt their sporting might together as continental brothers and sisters, Europe finally has a...
View ArticleAmerica's Original Transgender Sweetheart
With her recent cover appearance on Vanity Fair, primetime interview with Diane Sawyer and exploding Twitter following (more than 2.5 million and counting), Caitlyn Jenner has climbed into the...
View ArticleDon't Repeat Mitt Romney's Mistake on Immigration
As deputy campaign manager of Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential bid, I saw first-hand how the rhetoric on immigration during the GOP primary, from all of the candidates, painted our party in a negative...
View ArticleWill Ash Carter's Arrogance Ruin Him?
A mere three months in office, Ash Carter is quickly establishing himself as the scold of Washington. His main target: the Iraqis. On Wednesday, the defense secretary once again denigrated Iraqi...
View ArticleChoosing to Be Black Is the Epitome of White Privilege
“Are you African-American?” For Rachel Dolezal, the question seemed almost rhetorical. The now embattled former president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP, dodged answering when asked...
View ArticleEurope's New Dictator
Last month at the European Union summit in Riga, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker dispensed with diplomatic protocol to greet HungariaContinue reading ...
View ArticleNapoleon Wrote the Best Political Memoir
This week the world will mark the bicentenary of the mother of all battles, Waterloo. On June 18, 1815, the destiny of Europe, and much of the rest of the world, was hashed out. The monarchies of...
View ArticlePope Francis Goes Off the Rails
A quasi-religious movement now has a genuinely religious leader. The pope’s encyclical on the environment is being hailed for its embrace of science, although it is about as scientific as the Catholic...
View ArticleSave Alexander Hamilton!
There is something sad and shockingly misguided in the spectacle of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew acting to belittle the significance of the foremost Treasury secretary in American history, Alexander...
View ArticleBrian Williams Proves 'Too Big to Fire'
NBC News could do the right thing in the Brian Williams affair or it could do the expedient thing. According to an NBCUniversal news release, it has settled on doing the expedient, cynical thing by...
View ArticleThe Mayor vs. the Mogul
On November 5, 2014, Mike Bloomberg settled in front of a Bloomberg terminal, logged on with his “B-unit” biometric identity card and prepared to send an email to his employees. He’d been gone 12...
View ArticleFlorida's Mouse Behind the Curtain
No company guards its squeaky clean image more fiercely than Disney. The company is generally low-key when it comes to political wrangling and has earned a reputation as a stellar citizen through its...
View ArticleWhere Dreams Come True
Orlando doesn’t seem like ground zero for the debate over higher education and social inequality. This Florida city, after all, is still best known for Disney World, the iconic Cinderella Castle and...
View ArticleHillary's Plan To Win Nevada
In 2008, the Strip—the focal point of everything in Las Vegas—was also the epicenter of the Democratic presidential contest. The most powerful grassroots special interest in Nevada, the Culinary union,...
View ArticleRetire Hamilton, Jackson and All the Rest, Too
Andrew Jackson’s enemies have been gunning for him for two centuries now, and yet have never brought him down. In his lifetime, the crusty Tennessean survived a duel that killed his opponent and...
View ArticleRacism Can't Destroy This Charleston Church
The horrific attack Wednesday evening on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first most Americans had ever heard of the house of worship, but to residents of South Carolina,...
View ArticleWhat Ten Women Want on the $10 Bill
We know by now that an American woman will appear on the redesign of the $10 bill, but who will it be? Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is soliciting recommendations, so Politico Magazine asked...
View ArticleThe Pope's Political Earthquake
“Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world” - Archimedes In a media landscape dominated by shrinking soundbites, run by organizations that measure time in nanoseconds, there arrives a strange...
View ArticleWere The Charleston Killings 'Terrorism?'
It’s “terrorism” when someone with an Arabic name kills people in the name of Islam, but if a white person shoots in a black church, as Dylann Roof has allegedly in Charleston this week, we call it a...
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