Year: 2016

To understand Donald Trump, look to Europe | Op-Ed LA Times | Donald Trump is a puzzle to political analysts. He’s commonly described as a creature of the far right, given his ultra-hard-line stances on Mexican and Muslim...

Joe Klein is correct. It’s easy to forget how steep of a climb Bill Clinton had to make to first win the Democratic nomination and then to win the presidency. He had larger problems than an email server: he had recently...

The Athenians ostracized their greatest military commander, Themistocles, for nothing much whatsoever, perhaps for simple arrogance. Those who failed in battle often suffered the same fate. I don’t think this was a wise...

In 2008, I blogged as a forceful advocate of Barack Obama’s candidacy during the primaries, and I retain a lot of the readership I built up over that campaign, which means that there are a lot of Clinton-bashing commenters...

Time Mag: Both Former Presidents Bush Won’t Endorse Trump Trump wins again!!! Just sayin’… The coming election is going to be driven largely by massive voter disgust at the results of the last 30 years or so of...