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It was the Fox News poll of voters that a reporter asked the president about, the one that showed 59% saying that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had gone too far. Hard to dismiss as fake news, but the president wasn't biting. He ignored the question, just sat resolutely at his resolute desk and stared ahead.

But he's not ignoring ...Read more

Many people assume that Germany instantly transitioned from representative democracy to totalitarianism following the ascension of Adolf Hitler to chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933. Actually, the Weimar Republic had already been reeling from the global Great Depression, unpopular austerity measures and overreliance on emergency decrees that restricted...Read more

While Immigration and Customs Enforcement terrorizes our nation, I keep seeing social media posts that compare ICE to Nazi Germany's Secret State Police, the Gestapo. Some in Trump's ranks like to lean into Nazi symbolism and cosplay in reminiscent trench coats, but don't let that misguide you.

As horrific as the Holocaust was, Nazi Germany is ...Read more

"I've seen plenty of guys die with a gun in their hand."

A guy older than I was said that to me in a bar maybe 25 years ago. He was almost, but not quite, drunk, and we were talking about the number of friends I had who kept a gun to repel burglars, or to defeat the hordes of Black Americans who would one day attack their suburb or, if ...Read more

Measles is a "cost of doing business," says a highly placed official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I'd like to know what business that is.

To be fair, let me finish the CDC principal deputy director's quote. Ralph Abraham said that measles is a cost of doing business "with our borders being somewhat porous for global and...Read more

Getting rid of Gregory Bovino, who had been the face (intentionally so) of President Donald Trump's war on immigrants, is a first step, but it is hardly enough. "You know, Bovino is very good, but he's a pretty out-there kind of a guy," Trump said in a Fox News interview Tuesday. "And in some cases, that's good. Maybe it wasn't good here."

In...Read more

President Donald Trump and his federal forces chose the wrong city and state for the escalating war on civilians out on the streets and in their homes, resulting in two deaths so far.

Minneapolis residents are defending city walls as best they can against masked federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who shot and killed two 37-...Read more

The U.S. military has long been an easy mark -- for our own avaricious corporate contractors, that is.

During the Civil War, for example, J.P. Morgan sold rifles to the Union army, which cost him only $3.50 each, but he charged the military $22 each. Worse, his rifles were defective, blowing off the thumbs of soldiers who fired them. Still, a...Read more

It wasn't enough last week for Americans to stomach the global humiliation of watching an untethered president babbling about "taking" territory from a NATO ally, or listening to his hourly cascade of lies about everything, from the sacrifices the allies he dissed had made on our behalf or the latest execution of an American citizen by U.S. ...Read more

Of course, Bill Clinton should cooperate with any investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of underage girls. The suggestion that Democrats would shield a former president from questions that might tarnish his legacy speaks ill of Democrats. This concerns a criminal enterprise, not bad-boy behavior.

Democrats siding with the pursuit ...Read more

One year ago, President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term. Within hours of his inauguration, it was clear that he and his administration would, once again, test the Constitution and the willingness of our nation's institutions and people to defend it. However, what stood out most to us during the last year has been the volume, pace ...Read more

Jack Smith finally got his chance to defend his investigation publicly in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

Smith is a dinosaur by this administration's standards. He is the polar opposite of Pam Bondi, which should be a frightening thought. He is a career prosecutor who doesn't play politics, and never has.

In his ...Read more

As a leftist, I'm heartened by the reactions of the citizens of Minneapolis and its neighboring municipalities to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's assault against their noncitizen neighbors. The killing of Renee Good makes the risk of confronting illiterate armed paramilitaries hopped up on aggression-fueling steroids brutally clear. Plus, ...Read more

Muhammad Ali was honored with his own forever stamp by the United States Postal Service on Jan. 15. "I should be a postage stamp," Ali famously once said, "because that's the only way I'll ever get licked."

I attended the launch celebration in Louisville where Bob Costas served as the master of ceremonies. As I listened to each speaker share ...Read more

I always thought I was safe from police harassment while driving because my car wasn't a junk, I'm white, and if you pulled me over, I had the country station on my radio.

I'm older now, and I figured that made me even safer. I'm still white, I drive a modest-sized SUV, I wear flannel shirts six months out of the year, my hair is silver and I...Read more

A most American of movies, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," is a morality tale about what happens when intimidation goes unanswered. The Clanton gang marauds through Tombstone, flashing their guns and humiliating townspeople. Feeding on fear, their bullying escalates as decent people avoid confrontation and outrageous behavior becomes routine.

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But Minneapolis is still on the table.

The news out of Davos on Wednesday morning was that President Donald Trump told world leaders that he does not plan to use force to take Greenland.

It's actually a relief to hear him say that, even in bellicose tones, which is a measure of the depth to which we've sunk. After all, for the last two weeks...Read more