by Kurt Bardella From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff. On […]
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SCOTUS has a legitimacy crisis — so does America
by Will Bunch Earlier this month, a speech warning about the dangers of politicizing the U.S. Supreme Court was delivered in Utah by an authoritative, insider source, who cautioned that […]
Ivermectin is useless against COVID
by Michael Hiltzik The final results are in, and they’re incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19. That’s the conclusion of […]
President Biden can’t handle his job
by Jay Ambrose Someone forgot to tie him to his Oval Office chair, and so it was that President Joe Biden took off for Europe to discuss the Ukraine horror […]
Democrats need to break the COVID-funding stalemate. Now
by Jonathan Bernstein Democrats should be pushing hard this week — not next week! — to break the logjam preventing full funding for pandemic prevention and treatment. There’s no excuse […]
Ron DeSantis is not a Trump clone
by Ramesh Ponnuru If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, it’s already obvious what one of the main Democratic lines of attack will be: He’s […]
A billionaires tax is a necessity
by Michael Hiltzik After years of largely theoretical discussion among Democrats, the idea of a billionaires tax has now become official policy. Kudos to President Joe Biden for putting the […]
Speaking Russian doesn’t make me a supporter of Putin’s war
by Ruth Madievsky While celebrating Purim with my family last week, I learned that our friend Daniel Lerman’s business has received 20-30 threatening calls and emails a day, as well […]
How 90s Con helped me understand 90s nostalgia
by Rider Strong I was onstage, the pressure mounting. Across from me, Melissa Joan Hart, star of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” glared, willing me to fail. Finally, I said, “Scrunchies?” […]
The hollowness of the child porn smear
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been bold and prescient by Emily Horowitz Soon after her nomination, it was reported that as a law student in 1996, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote […]
