If you’re a journalist who covers campaigns and politics, the recent news of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s diagnosis of a particularly aggressive form of brain… Continue reading
A year ago this week, newly anointed as his party’s candidate for president, Donald J. Trump capped the Republican National Convention in Cleveland by ascending… Continue reading
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to call his son, Don Jr., now surely the Fredo Trumpleone of America’s ruling clan, a “great… Continue reading
CARLISLE, Pa. - Gabrielle Trinkle has plenty she’d like to say to U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey. If only she could find him. Trinkle, 28, a… Continue reading
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf hit the nail on the head last week when he refused to play along with the Trump administration’s invasive and unwarranted… Continue reading
Senate Republicans better get ready for some fireworks. Their July 4 recess is going to be a hot one. Earlier this week, with Republican ranks… Continue reading
In the annals of political gerrymandering, Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District is notorious. Running west through the Philadelphia suburbs, it takes in a giant chunk of… Continue reading
It’s time to own it, Republicans: You’ve had seven years to come up with a credible alternative to Obamacare. And when your clutch moment came,… Continue reading
On Wednesday morning, Washington rightly fretted over the fate of a Republican congressman and three others felled by a gunman’s fire in suburban Alexandria, Va.,… Continue reading
When he was out on the campaign trail last year, candidate Donald Trump promised to appoint conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices who’d adhere to a… Continue reading
An anonymous reader of the newspaper I work for had a lot on his mind: “If that was your hero Obama’s bloody head, I do… Continue reading
This column is all about taking the time to look up. Sure, there’s plenty enough down here on our little, blue and green rock to… Continue reading
While he was off bowing to the Saudis, contemplating the Western Wall and visiting other foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump’s White House dropped… Continue reading
Now that Der Leader has deposed the lead investigator of Der Leader — sabotaging the rule of law, the kind of thing that typically happens… Continue reading
Back in the 1930s, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously referred to states as “laboratories of democracy.” But these days, those labs are looking… Continue reading
I’m a music junkie — I always have been. And if there’s one record that I go back to again and again it’s The Clash’s… Continue reading
What did he think he was signing up for? In a surreal interview with Reuters at the end of last week, President Donald Trump admitted… Continue reading
Who’s winning? During last year’s campaign, Donald Trump promised cheering throngs that they’d eventually be so tired of winning that they’d beg for a respite… Continue reading
It was 20 years ago this month that I — along with everyone else in Chicago — woke up to the news that Mike Royko… Continue reading
It was most serene of all scenes: A choir singing hymns on a Palm Sunday morning. It could have been any church, anywhere in the… Continue reading
