I typically associate the word genius with someone like Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs. I don’t append the word to someone who arranges for dissidents to accidentally fall from windows, someone who chooses to wage war on peaceful people. So when Trump uses it to...
By Chris Satullo Pennsylvania has a new congressional map. Michigan has a model the rest of the land should follow. Ohio has a donnybrook. And, nationally, the way Republicans are whining and weeping over the unfolding results of congressional redistricting makes me...
Nobody is perfect. Even Brooks Robinson, the great third baseman, committed 263 errors during his career. The only people who never admit mistakes are Internet trolls and Trumpists. I’ll confess to a big one, and it’s high time I did so: I bobbled the ball...
I’m old enough to remember when rabid rightist Republicans proclaimed “Better Dead Than Red” and insisted that anyone who was “soft” on Russia should leave this country and go live over there. I never imagined, back when they paraded...
With each passing day, as Vladimir Putin flexes his pecs and puts the squeeze on Ukraine, it’s ever more glaringly obvious why he and his military intelligence trolls worked so hard in 2016 to help put their own stooge in the White House. You don’t need an...
