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There Is No Short Path Back to Institutional Credibility Jun. 21, 2023
Institutional trust is built over the course of years. Decades. Centuries. Dishonesty takes just a m... Read More
Can You Define Leftism? Jun. 20, 2023
After a speech in Romania last week, I was asked a question by a young member of the audience that, ... Read More
St. Louis Is Different Than Outstate Missouri. It Should Have Different Gun Laws. Jun. 19, 2023
A 5-year-old girl was shot and injured by stray gunfire Monday afternoon on the north side of St. Lo... Read More
Everybody's Wolves Come Home to Roost Jun. 16, 2023
When one has been wrong, how do they approach a new situation and attempt to explain it is different... Read More
Parsing the Histrionic Narrative From Hawley and Other Trump Defenders Jun. 15, 2023
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley went there (again) on Tuesday night, warning a Fox News audience that "we ... Read More
That Increasingly Crowded Republican Primary Field Is Looking Eerily Familiar Jun. 14, 2023
Then there were four. Wait, five. OK, six. The number of Republican politicians who have formally de... Read More
The Dangerous Trump Indictment Jun. 14, 2023
This week, a Rubicon was crossed: The former president of the United States and current Republican f... Read More
Democrats Abandon the Blue-Collar Worker in Favor of 'Social Justice' Warriors Jun. 13, 2023
CHESWICK, Pennsylvania — Up until two years ago, it would only take 12 hours for coal mined de... Read More
Hawley, Schmitt Are Playing With Fire in Reckless Comments About Trump Indictment Jun. 13, 2023
Trained attorneys Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt either need some law school refresher courses, or the... Read More
Stop the Far Right From Sabotaging Republicans Jun. 13, 2023
Colorado Republican Reps. Ken Buck and Lauren Boebert each opposed the debt-limit compromise. Since ... Read More
The Field Fills In Jun. 09, 2023
With the entries of North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former ... Read More
Still Stumped by Trump Jun. 09, 2023
The problem is not that the electorate is polarized, siloed into self-reinforcing media echo chamber... Read More
The Revolution at The Heart Of 'Pride' Jun. 07, 2023
June 1 marked the advent of Pride Month — the most important sacrament of the American secular... Read More
Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt, Cori Bush Declined To Be Grownups on Debt Ceiling Jun. 06, 2023
The good news is that last week's debt-ceiling deal established there are still some grownups in Con... Read More
Only One Republican Candidate Gets Results Jun. 02, 2023
The Wollman Rink episode, or, rather, the unduly optimistic conclusion I drew from it, explains a lo... Read More
The Far Right Has Lost Its Monopoly on Internet Misinformation, and That's Sad Jun. 02, 2023
Much attention in the culture wars tends to focus on how wacky the far right can be when it comes to... Read More
Democrats Abandon Working Class, Become Party of Freeloaders May. 31, 2023
The Democratic Party, long known as the party for working people, is now for freeloaders. Democrats ... Read More
Ron DeSantis Dangerously Blurs the Line Between State and Private Action: Whether the Putative Target Is the 'Biomedical Security State,' Wokeness, 'Big Tech Censors' or Chinese Communists, the Presidential Candidate's Grandstanding Poses a Clear Threat t May. 31, 2023
Ron DeSantis, who officially launched his presidential campaign last week, presents himself as a cha... Read More
Blame the Media for the National Debt May. 31, 2023
Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement to lift the debt ceiling, and nothing is going to cha... Read More
Biden's Age Paid Off in Debt Limit Crisis May. 31, 2023
Ain't no way to run a railroad, Congress, facing a debt limit crisis. The United States Treasury ca... Read More
