Robert Reich doesn’t dispute that the 45th president of the United States is both stupid and ignorant. He’s not as accomplished as he pretends. In fact, he would have done…
One thing you have to say for Donald Trump. He manages to suck all the oxygen out of a room. This post happens to be about oxygen and it isn’t…
When I awoke this morning I interrupted my normal routine to fire up my Kindle and, sure enough, there it was, my copy of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” mine…
E.J. Dionne has a lot of credibility. In addition to writing a column for the Washington Post, he’s a Brookings Institution fellow and a professor of the foundations of democracy…
Fire and Fury, the kiss and tell book on the Trump campaign and its first year in office, is set for release on January 9. Trump and his minions at…
It would be a real Punch & Judy show. Trump wailing away on his former campaign CEO and chief political strategist, using a confidentiality agreement to bludgeon both Bannon and…
Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s soon to be released book about the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, already has the Mango Mussolini in knots. If you want a taste…
It’s a problem but it’s not here. It’s an American problem, a European problem. It happens in other countries, not ours. “It” is the waning of liberal democracy. You know,…
That didn’t take long. Donald Trump has lashed out at his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, over revelations in a new book in which the Breitbart boss says many unflattering…
The New York based risk consultancy, Eurasia Group, warns the world is facing a “big, unexpected crisis” in 2018. “In the 20 years since we started Eurasia Group, the global…
Every despot has a Rasputin and Donald Trump’s is named Steve Bannon. The now ousted chief political adviser has now turned on Trump’s namesake, Don Jr., accusing the son, who…
Deadly, sure. Destructive, yep. Punishing, in some ways. Scary, big time. Climate change, the early onset stuff unfolding before our eyes, is all of those things but it’s almost never…
As the government of Justin Trudeau sails into the third year of its mandate this would be a good time to reflect on the most important expectations we have of…
An increasing number of progressives have been coming forward lately to pronounce the “of the people, by the people, for the people” America dead. What had been criticisms now become…
The term is used to differentiate coastal properties by their elevation above sea level. After all, there aren’t many homeowners keen to share their livingroom with the ocean, right? Particularly…
Looking back over the changes we’ve experienced and those we’ve set in motion over the past decade or two, one thing becomes clear. We really don’t have much idea of…
2017. Where is Hunter Stockton Thompson now that we most need him? Fortunately we have the Sydney Morning Herald’s Nick O’Malley to staunch our reportorial hemorrhaging with a delightful look…
Imagine if he’d been away golfing the entire year?
Dear Roy Moore: You’re a God fearin’, God praisin’, God lovin’ man. You proudly proclaim that God’s law, or at least your God’s law as you perceive it, is the…
According to America’s National Public Radio, the Trudeau government was intimidated into abstaining on yesterday’s General Assembly vote to repudiate Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. NPR…
