The shooting of two National Guard members by a gunman identified by the authorities as an Afghan national was horrific. But Trump's response has been disproportionate and bigoted. He vows to "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries." He intends to deport legal immigrants ...
The fate of the Trump administration — and perhaps Republicans in Congress — is tethered to how Americans feel about the economy. And right now, it's hard to find anyone who can say with confidence what the hell is going on. Thursday offered a fresh reminder of the chaos. As The Wall Street Journal noted, "Stocks surrendered gains and closed sharply lower after a whirlwind day of trading that began after Nvidia posted strong results. The Nasdaq composite led indexes lower after being up on the day more than 2%. It closed 2.2% lower. Nvidia gave up an even bigger gain and finished ...
Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028. He shares his thoughts in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. It's the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton announced in his 1996 State of the Union ...
Jackie Kennedy Onassis once said, "If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." Even though it's my sixth book that was published last week, I still feel I've done something wonderful. Why? Because my first five books were fiction, and "The Raffel Ticket: ...
Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite at the height of broadcast news. This makes it ...
For most folks, Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season. For me, growing up in a Catholic family, the holiday season usually began a couple of days later ... on the first Sunday of Advent. For the unfamiliar, Advent, from the latin adventus, meaning "coming" is the four ...
