April

I’ve said it with regard to Supreme Court confirmations and voting rights legislation, but I have to say it again: “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has proved particularly adept at inventing…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom amassed a huge vote count, 63.4 percent, to defeat the attempt by Trump Republicans to recall him. (The exact number could change a bit as the state continues…

This questionable imitation of a column notwithstanding, I’m not a journalist and therefore play no role in determining what the story is. In my humble opinion, however, by focusing on…

Cold War babies like me were taught to abhor communism as children. My earliest memory of such instruction came from a teacher who raged against what she claimed was communism’s…

My father, of blessed memory, a stalwart civil libertarian who cut his teeth as a lawyer defending people accused of being communists by McCarthyite goons, used to say, “Your rights…

Any careful reckoning would conclude that polling on massive, multipart legislative packages is beset by problems. Our typical notion of public opinion assumes people hold views in their heads which…

Everybody “knows” two things about the economy: it’s (at least somewhat) important politically and it’s getting better. Take the first as a given, but the second needs greater exploration. First,…

I’ve long said there is a minor Ph.D. dissertation in it. Spoofing a late 1960s self-help guide, it’s a phenomenon I labeled, “I’m OK, you’re not.” It’s the tendency to…

In his long, largely unprincipled pursuit of power at any price, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has proved particularly adept at inventing constitutional principles and American history from whole cloth. So…