Vladimir Putin Is Bringing Back The 1930s
WASHINGTON — Vladimir Putin’s serial humiliations of America’s bewildered secretary of state regarding Syria indicate Putin’s determination to destabilize the world. Here is an even more ominous...
View ArticleThe ‘quiet catastrophe’ of men choosing to not seek work
WASHINGTON — The “quiet catastrophe” is particularly dismaying because it is so quiet, without social turmoil or even debate. It is this: After 88 consecutive months of the economic expansion that...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Rise Reflects America’s Decay
WASHINGTON — Looking on the bright side, perhaps this election can teach conservatives to look on the dark side. They need a talent for pessimism, recognizing the signs that whatever remains of...
View ArticleIn the High Plains, a Republican worth voting for
AURORA, Colo. — Here on the High Plains, where the deer and the antelope once played, Denver’s suburbs roam toward the Rockies’ front range and the nature of today’s polyglot politics is written in the...
View ArticleDeepen Charleston’s Port, And The Big Ships Will Come
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Technology has put powerful computers in billions of pockets, but an invention much more mundane than the smartphone — the shipping container: a rectangular steel box — also has...
View ArticleThis Year’s Most Consequential Senate Race
GLENOLDEN, Pa. — From Erie in the west to Scranton in the east, Pennsylvania is flecked with casualties the stubborn economic sluggishness and relentless globalization have inflicted on industrial...
View ArticlePutin’s post-factual politics
“In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. … Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building. … For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes.” — George...
View ArticleThe IRS Commissioner Merits Impeachment
WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders ardently want conservative members of the House to not force a vote on impeaching the IRS commissioner. The public does not care about John Koskinen’s many...
View ArticleIn a ‘change’ year, Sen. Portman deserves re-election
TERRACE PARK, Ohio — Sen. Rob Portman probably will win a second term, despite the fact that he deserves to. The swarm of young people who gathered on a Saturday morning in this Cincinnati suburb to...
View ArticleAll Eyes On The Silver State
LAS VEGAS — Nevada, which calls itself the “Battle Born State,” actually was born prematurely because of Republicans’ anxiety. Now, 152 years later, it again is a subject of their anxiety. Entering...
View ArticleIllinois Exemplifies Our Fiscal Foolishness
CHICAGO — Seated in his office here, wearing neither a necktie nor a frown, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is remarkably relaxed for someone at the epicenter of a crisis now in its second year and with...
View ArticleThe Sinking Fantasy That Trump Would Defend The Constitution
WASHINGTON — Like shipwrecked mariners clinging to a floating mast, many Republicans rationalize supporting Donald Trump because of “the court.” This two-word incantation means: Because we care so much...
View ArticleTrump’s Shallowness Runs Deep
WASHINGTON — In the 1870s, when Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall controlled New York City, and in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chicago’s Democratic machine was especially rampant, there was a phenomenon that can...
View ArticlePence The Pliable
WASHINGTON — Crucial political decisions often concern which bridges to cross and which to burn. Donald Trump’s dilemma is that he burns some bridges by the way he crosses others. His campaign depends...
View ArticleA Wall Too High For The GOP?
WASHINGTON — Political conventions are echo chambers designed to generate feelings of invincibility, sending forth the party faithful with a spring in their steps and hope in their hearts. Who would...
View ArticleGOP Minds Are At Sea — But Not The Right One
WASHINGTON — Neither the unanimous decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, nor China’s rejection of it, was surprising. The timing of it was, however, as serendipitous as China’s...
View ArticleThe Travesty Of Teacher Tenure
LOS ANGELES — The mills of justice grind slowly, but life plunges on, leaving lives blighted when justice, by being delayed, is irremediably denied. Fortunately, California’s Supreme Court might soon...
View ArticleIs Anemic Growth The New Normal?
ST. LOUIS — America’s economy has now slouched into the eighth year of a recovery that demonstrates how much we have defined recovery down. The idea that essentially zero interest rates are, after...
View ArticleThe Sobering Evidence Of Social Science
WASHINGTON — The report was so “seismic” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s word — that Lyndon Johnson’s administration released it on the Fourth of July weekend, 1966, hoping it would not be noticed. But the...
View ArticleThe Corrupting Crusade Against ‘Corruption’
WASHINGTON — The progressive drive to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political “corruption” has corrupted politics. But discord is not altogether pandemic in Washington, and last week a...
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