We’re reading a great deal on the follies of our president and how he dangles a shiny object in front of us—like the promise to cut egg prices—then when he can’t get it done he immediately …

The letter to then-President-elect Donald Trump, sent to his Mar-a-Lago Club estate in Florida just two weeks after his resounding victory in the Nov. 5 election, came straight to the point. …

President Donald Trump issued an executive order gutting DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs in the federal government. Employees in DEI offices were placed on paid administrative leave …

Were he around today, the great 20th century journalist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) would have a field day puncturing the pomposities of the incoming Trump administration. The Sage of Baltimore had no …

As President Donald Trump takes office, his Republican allies in Congress are already hard at work readying his legislative agenda. Trump campaigned on a promise to lower costs for Americans. But …

A journalistic peer and fellow lover of mysteries took me to task when I posted a rave on Facebook about the TV series “Bosch” for not having read its source: Michael Connelly’s novels about …

Whereas in 1934 Paramount released “Death Takes a Holiday,” starring Frederic March and co-written by playwright Maxwell Anderson, 90 years later, smack dab in the holiday season Sony Pictures …

So many people I know — including, I suspect, many of you — are despairing over Donald Trump’s second regime, which started Jan. 20. I share your fears about what’s to come. Yet I …

In his zeal to wrest Greenland from Denmark, President Trump has resurrected Manifest Destiny. Ages ago we grew our footprint, seizing Texas from Texas, much of the Southwest from Mexico, as well as …

“Today, I will sign a series of executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense,” — Donald Trump, Inauguration 2025 …

Awareness of eco-social conditions in the United States is growing as the Los Angeles wildfires spread death and destruction. This disaster, for example, comes on the heels of Hurricane Helene that …

Science tells us that our skin becomes thinner as we age. The ever irascible 78 year-old skinflint Trump has been demonstrating just how much thinner his skin has become. “I want him …

Science tells us that our skin becomes thinner as we age. The ever irascible 78 year-old skinflint Trump has been demonstrating just how much thinner his skin has become. “I want him …

Donald Trump won the whole Monopoly game. He never went directly to jail and always passed go. Timid Merrick Garland, the attorney general, was no match, and didn’t even buy a railroad. The Big …

There have been many political cartoonists – the political cartoonist was as much a staple of newspapers as the crossword puzzle. Thomas Nast is considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” …

SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around …

Thomas Piketty’s “Nature, Culture and Inequality,” weighing in at a slim 82 pages, packs quite a wallop for its size. Originally presented as a series of lectures, this “comparative and …

In recent weeks we’ve seen a new breed of first responders when disaster hits. Not the fire department. Not the EMTs. Not the cops. No, even faster are politicians misrepresenting facts and …

The last time Americans faced the possible spread of Ebola to U.S. territory, in 2014, Donald Trump irresponsibly stoked public fears and barked at Barack Obama while doing nothing useful to protect us. By Joe Conason

By Frank Lingo -- In case we thought the climate crisis wasn’t going to affect our personal lives, here’s a news flash. No one wants to learn their home’s value is dropping but First Street …