Joe Biden is old. He hugs people. He thinks China is and isn’t a challenge for America. He is for and against taxpayers financing abortion. He was once against busing […]
Columns/Opinion
Shanahan’s short and sad career
It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for Patrick Shanahan. The acting U.S. secretary of defense said Tuesday he’s leaving government because of “a painful and deeply personal family situation” […]
Headline all gun violence just like this
It’s unknown what exactly was in the man’s mind as he approached the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas on Monday, but his intent was easy to read. Clad […]
Foreign election meddling still wrong, Mr. President
It was extraordinary to hear a U.S. president declare that the FBI director is “wrong” for saying that candidates should report to the FBI — as the law clearly intends […]
Burnout real crisis among physicians in training
Stephen Russell, Sanjay Desai and Brian Garibaldi The Baltimore Sun This month, the American Medical Association invested $15 million in eight ambitious programs to address the workplace needs of our […]
Billionaires aren’t the problem
Bernie Sanders can’t decide what socialism is. At times he frames it as nothing more than New Deal-style capitalism, not so different from the Scandinavian economies of Norway, Sweden or […]
He once damaged ROTC offices
On Friday, I will attend the solemn ceremony at Northwestern University in which Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps students will take the oath to become members of the U.S. Navy […]
Oberlin’s racial hucksterism comes home to roost
As a right-wing alumna of far-left Oberlin College, I have four words for the administration in response to last week’s ground-breaking $11 million jury verdict in the defaming of humble […]
Yes, Elizabeth Warren can win
Elizabeth Warren can do it. Yes, she can. I’ll concede that betting on winners and losers in the Democratic presidential free-for-all is like betting on Chicago weather in June. Only […]
Trump isn’t behind Iran’s belligerence
As President Trump mulls a comprehensive response to what he says was an Iranian attack on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf last week, his smarter critics are not questioning […]




