The homemade peanut butter ice cream is great. The gnats are awful; they dive-bomb your eyes. Plains, Georgia hasn’t changed much since Jimmy Carter returned home after losing re-election 40 years ago. It’s still a pretty isolated place to my urban eyes. The only restaurant in town...
Medicare for All is a nice catchphrase, but for a party seeking to
unseat President Trump, it is a poison pill that the Democratic
candidates should not swallow whole. The popularizer of
the idea, Bernie Sanders, conceded under questioning on the debate stage
that the middle class would...
If a Democrat wins the White House in 2020, Joe Biden thinks Mitch McConnell will have an “epiphany” and work across party lines to solve the country’s problems. Other Democratic candidates have scoffed at that idea, as Biden’s insistence that the impasse in our...
Bernie Sanders is the most popular senator in America, according to the last 11 Morning Consult polls, a distinction that may say as much about the institution and its fall from grace as the curmudgeonly junior senator from Vermont. The Brooklyn-born Sanders is a...
“Less is more” doesn’t have the ring of “It’s the economy, stupid”
but it sums up the Biden campaign’s rope-a-dope strategy, engaging as
little as possible with the media and the public as other Democratic
primary candidates punch themselves out. And why not, when the most
recent...
Young, mostly male, and overwhelmingly white judges appointed by President Trump are on the cusp of remaking the once reliably liberal Ninth Circuit of the Court of Appeals, the nation’s highest court below the Supreme Court. The “very, very...
At least three of the nearly two dozen Democrats eyeing the presidency would have a good shot at winning a Senate race and helping to end the GOP’s domination. Instead they chose not to answer their party’s call to make the run, and you...
At least three of the nearly two dozen Democrats eyeing the
presidency would have a good shot at winning a Senate race and helping
to end the GOP’s domination. Instead they chose not to answer their
party’s call to make the run, and you can’t really blame...
