Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has made himself largely unavailable to questions from reporters since before his nomination. In c…
I’ll confess: There was a time when I would have considered the question facing Republicans a no-brainer. Of course they should seize this opp…
People in public life tend to fall into one of two broad categories — those who are motivated by principle, and those motivated by power.
Constitutional revolution is going mainstream.
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives conservatives and Republicans what they claim to have wanted since judicial act…
The air outside my window is yellow today. It was orange yesterday. The air quality index is over 200. The Environmental Protection Agency def…
Lots of people in politics and the media out here in California are blaming global warming for the 26 major wildfires that have killed at leas…
Earlier this year, the Trump administration launched an all-hands-on-deck initiative called Operation Warp Speed to defeat COVID-19. Operation…
This is for the people who keep asking me about Chicago.
In just the past week, President Trump has made the absolutely asinine decision to hold two indoor rallies at a time when COVID-19 has killed …
Let’s squarely face an ugly possibility: President Trump could get elected a second time without winning the popular vote. Indeed, according t…
The attempted assassination of two Los Angeles County deputies, caught on a security video, is chilling and enraging enough.
On hearing that President Trump sat for 18 interviews with Bob Woodward of The Washington Post my first reaction was “what the ...” Why Woodward?
What were you doing the night of Saturday, March 19, 1977?
I was grabbing a couple of sausage biscuits, and witnessed a couple of old codgers arguing over their coffee. One was a bit on the heavy side,…
Am I in Hell, or just L.A.?
In American law, criminal negligence is conduct in which a person ignores a known or obvious risk, or disregards the lives and safety of others.
Who is a moderate now? Who’s a centrist?
The American Cemetery at Normandy sits on a bluff overlooking the beach where, on June 6, 1944, American soldiers waded ashore to begin the in…
Less than two months before one of the most consequential elections in American history, it’s useful to consider the economic reality that fue…
There’s a giant scheme afoot to disenfranchise voters in November — it’s called mail-in balloting.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports the American government will soon reach a debt level equaling its entire gross domestic pr…
I hope we get it right.
One of the highlights of my 93-year-old mother’s week is when she receives an inspirational essay from a church lady (hi, Regina!) who maintai…
This is almost four months early.
To be re-elected, Donald Trump knows he has to distract the nation from the pandemic that he has flagrantly failed to control — leaving more t…
Until a few days ago, Democrats were content to pretend the disorder in American cities didn’t exist.
The two political conventions are finally over. To paraphrase Charles Dickens, one convention promoted the best of times, the other the worst …