Danish Plan

This year’s budget battles have at least produced two points of clarity...

The song goes back 450 years, give or take. You may even have sung it as a round in elementary school (assuming your teacher...

It didn’t come as a shock when I turned 70 last summer. I had seen it coming for a long time...

It is not true — as some conservative websites have recently claimed — that Vladimir Putin once remarked that “negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the...

 Politics, like rust, never sleeps...

I’ve been exchanging emails on gun control with an old friend who also happens to be a gun-fearing, tree-hugging, knee-jerking, banners-snapping-in-the-breeze progressive...

I don’t for a second doubt that any of the 22 candidates currently running for President — 17 Republicans and five Democrats — could run the country if they happened to get elected. This isn’t because they are political geniuses. It’s because the genius of the ...

The ballots go out on October 12. That’s when the shitstorm begins...

I have a modest proposal to put an end once and for all to all the sexual tomfoolery going on in Congress and congressional offices....

I was just kicking back with my second piece of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...

Human Rights Watch has released a report on human rights abuses in the world’s largest totalitarian state — the People’s Republic of China. And...

Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep. Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...