Seventy years ago, in response to a fantastical-but-true event on the ball field, sportswriter Red Smith wrote: “The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.” Indeed there are times, as we all know, when life imitates art imitates life. But...
What a kick it was, last week, to see Donald Trump suffer an anti-fascist trifecta. The U.S. Supreme Court, including his three appointees, allowed the National Archives to release Trump’s coup d’etat documents – and we quickly learned (the first of...
By Chris Satullo My mother grew up poor in England during the Depression, daughter to an abusive alcoholic who couldn’t hold a job and moved the family frequently. She served in the Royal Air Force as a teenager during the Blitz and lost a fiancé to the Battle of...
It’s so refreshing when a hack politician commits candor in public. No obfuscation, no word salads, no bullcrap. It’s a breath of fresh air (or, in this case, foul) when someone like Mitch McConnell speaks his true mind. He did it yesterday when asked...
In conversation yesterday with the White House press corps, on the eve of his one-year presidential anniversary, Joe Biden said: “One thing I haven’t been able to do so far is get my Republican friends to get in the game of making things better in this...
