I’ve long refused to quote the rants that Trump spews forth as press releases, mostly because they’re less coherent than the mentally-ill homeless guy who hangs out at my local 7-11. But I guess there’s a first time for everything. Trump put out a...
Racists are so predictable. The prospect of a Black woman serving on the Supreme Court has them in high dudgeon, just as we would’ve expected. Take, for instance, Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker. He said Friday that any Black female nominee will merely...
By Chris SatulloRuy Teixeira must be feeling a bit like Dr. Frankenstein these days. In 2002, with a co-author, the veteran Democratic analyst published one of the most cited – and most misunderstood – political books of the century, titled The...
When word spread this week about an imminent Supreme Court retirement, I hoped against hope that it would be Clarence Thomas. No such luck. Replacing Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer with a Biden appointee is really no biggie. Ridding the court of Clarence, and his...
Seven years ago, when the totalitarians in Russia banned bookstore sales of “Maus,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, author Art Spiegelman lamented: “It’s a real shame because this is a book about memory. We...
