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 "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...

The current Administration is a collection of the worst people, impulses, and reactionary causes from the post-war era. It includes...

The events of the weekend had me looking at old pictures again. Specifically, pictures of Nuremberg. Not the trials of...

The printing press launched a communications revolution. It produced the Renaissance, as well as the wars of the Reformation and...

Josh Marshall, one of the few political analysts I trust further than I can throw him, is out with a...

Dictators fall. Would-be dictators fall faster. If America were still a full democracy, the current Administration would be toast. Every...

Markets usually work. Demand and supply adjust to one another. Good news for one side is bad news for the...

After World War II, American politics became a 40-40-20 affair. That is, 40% of voters were committed to each party,...

The hardest lesson for me to learn, in my half-century of reporting, was that I should have been the name...

Julia Bindel’s “Why I Hate Holland” is the most egregious example of national character assassination I have yet seen here...