I’m old enough to remember when Republicans touted themselves as the champions of “family values.” Party moralists like Bill Bennett used to insist that only candidates of unassailable good character should pass muster; in Bennett’s words,...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled gloom for these important news bulletins: The jobless rate has dropped to a pandemic-low 4.6 percent, two years ahead of recent projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. In October the economy added more than half...
By Chris Satullo I got to meet one of my new heroes last week. She’s a 70-year-old Black woman of fierce intellect and infectious laugh, gap-toothed and given to colorful garb. She’s a renowned feminist and activist who was on the ground floor of the fights for...
During these troubled times, when we can’t seem to muster bipartisan support for anything (not even the right to vote, or the right to travel on safe bridges, or the need to save the planet from burning up), I have been searching long and hard for an issue that...
Democrats can certainly try to convince themselves that the Virginia gubernatorial defeat is no big deal. All kinds of rationales are available. For instance, the incumbent president’s party has lost 11 of the last 12 gubernatorial races; Virginia, when choosing its...