Where did this guy come from? How did a TV personality end up leading America's defense department, especially in a time of war? Donald Trump put Pete Hegseth in charge of the Department of Defense. It's now officially called the War Department, but I'm not ready to go there. In one of ...
Since President Donald Trump displays a ferocious disdain for any suggestion that he could be wrong about anything, I hope he will not try to consult the AI fact-checker he has unleashed against himself. Last week, the White House unveiled America.gov, a search tool it declared to be no less ...
Why do we kill? It's a question unlikely to ever be answered to any degree of satisfaction, but one I found myself asking the other day after hearing about the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. In reading about the story, I learned that Pike and I are almost the ...
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump is not just a bad president. "King" is too good a word for the likes of him. What Trump truly is shall be written in the end. Andrew Johnson was the worst president we've had until now. A Southerner who was Abraham Lincoln's vice president, he took office in 1865 ...
"If you want to know what a politician is up to, watch his feet, not his mouth," historian Marvin Meyers wrote in his magisterial "The Jacksonian Persuasion" in 1957. It's still good advice. In private conversations, Republicans are talking a big game about how they're not worried about ...
Do you worry that you're being watched? If you drive, you probably are. My new video covers the cameras that photograph the backs of millions of cars. A company called Flock has 80% of that market. Flock's CEO says the goal is to "eliminate crime." But lots of people hate the ...
