Opinion
Trump Goes Belly Up In China | Dick Polman
Donald Trump has dumped all his macho stump rhetoric about China and morphed into a wimp. Since he…
Opinion
Trump’s Apologists Couldn’t Care Less About Indictments | Dick Polman
Amidst all the speculation about the scope and direction of Robert Mueller’s deepening Trump-Russia probe — triggered anew…
Opinion
Senator Versus Demagogue, and History’s Verdict | Dick Polman
Bravo to the Republican senator who stood tall in the chamber and assailed a Republican demagogue for his…
Opinion
‘Fake News’ Exposes Trump’s Swamp Creature | Dick Polman
Before we inevitably face Trump’s next phantasmagoria, let’s briefly pause to celebrate the speedy downfall of a apparatchik…
Opinion
Republicans Decide Sex Harassment is Very, Very Bad | Dick Polman
Wow, isn’t it amazing how the GOP and Donald Trump Jr. are suddenly rocking the sexual harassment issue,…
Opinion
Trump’s Bigly Lie to the LGBTQ Community | John L. Micek
Last June, after a gunman opened fire in the gay-friendly Pulse nightclub in Orlando, candidate Donald Trump proclaimed…
Opinion
Meet the New Face of Republican Extremism | Dick Polman
Thank you, Alabama Republicans! Thank you for choosing a Senate candidate whose reactionary ravings and paranoid fictions make…
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Hillary is Right about the Mainstream Media | Dick Polman
Hillary Clinton’s new cri de coeur discomfits the many Democrats who yearn to put 2016 in the rear-view…
Opinion
An Ignorant America Endangers Democracy | Dick Polman
Donald Trump famously declared, “I love the poorly educated!” and we know why. An electorate that’s ignorant about…
Opinion
Should Democrats Do a Deal for the Dreamers? | Dick Polman
Let’s stick with the story about the Dreamers — the 800,000 young immigrants Trump wants to kick out…
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Big Government is Bad Until Red States Need Help | Dick Polman
It’s an old story, freshened anew by Hurricane Harvey: Republicans profess to hate “Big Guvmint” as a matter…
Opinion
Beat the Press: Trump’s Survival Strategy | Dick Polman
Donald Trump’s mounting assaults on the free and independent press are enough to make me wax nostalgic for…
Opinion
CEOs to Trump: You’re Bad for Business | Dick Polman
It’s not often — actually, it’s never happened before — that a Republican president gets dissed and dumped…