You Ought to Be Scared
I’m eighty-two years old. I was seven when World War II broke out, and my memories of those years are still vivid. As a Jew, I have always been fascinated by the history of that war and the rise of...
View ArticleRadical Rethinking for the Democrats
Look at the mess the Democrats are in. Bernie Sanders, still an Independent, won’t join the party. He runs around making speeches and endorsing a right-to-lifer. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are...
View ArticleBest Cabinet Meeting Ever
The president led off in his usual forthright, modest manner: “I will say that never has there been a president, with few exceptions—in the case of F.D.R. he had a major Depression to handle—who’s...
View ArticleMitch and Chuck
We were so intrigued by the new Republican health care bill in the Senate that we flew the entire JI&O staff to Washington at major cost to interview majority leader Mitch McConnell. Here is what...
View ArticleDumb and Dumber
Here’s Tim Egan in Friday’s NYTimes, saying something I’ve felt for a long time and echoing the sentiments of H.L. Mencken almost a hundred years ago. It used to be bad form to demean the intelligence...
View ArticlePolitical Hubris
From the underbelly of showbiz came Wayne Newton’s praise of Donald Trump, illustrating just how far hubris is accepted and welcomed in America. People love the overreachers, the Elon Musks, even the...
View ArticleImpeach Them All
I mean Pence, McConnell, Ryan et al., the whole rotten administration, in and out of office. El Cheeto is but the tip of the iceberg. Let the 25th Amendment speak, bringing up Trump and his cabinet in...
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