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Shocking, but the electoral thumping of President Donald Trump delivered by American voters last Tuesday was not, in Donald Trump's estimation, a reflection on Donald Trump. "I wasn't on the ballot, and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE," posted the most spectacular, and spectacularly successful, snake oil salesman not merely in ...Read more

Some interesting numbers: New York's 13th Congressional District, covering northern Manhattan and part of the Bronx, is 52% Hispanic, 23% Black and only 14% white. Yet in June's Democratic primary, voters dumped five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat, head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, for Democratic Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, a ...Read more

The instinct to get even must be nearly overwhelming. After two years of getting pounded every day by the Trumpers, of fighting hard when you know you're going to lose every vote, of indignities large and small inflicted on the Democratic minority, the tables are suddenly turned. The minority becomes the majority. They take control -- of ...Read more

The Democratic Party has ample cause for celebration. Exceeding optimistic expectations for the midterm elections, they not only recaptured control of the Senate -- widely considered a reach a couple of weeks ago -- they may wind up with 56-to-44 dominance. Most governors and state houses, assumed by most analysts to be permanently consigned ...Read more

Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw said she felt betrayed when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained her on Aug. 12.

ICE agents took Armelle into custody when she and her husband Terrance voluntarily appeared for what was supposed to be a final interview for Armelle's marriage-based green card. After 55 days in detention, Judge Tanya ...Read more

Most people don't get radicalized at the mosque. Most people don't get radicalized at an antifa meeting because there are no real antifa meetings. Most people don't get radicalized at a Gay Pride event.

You know where people get radicalized?

They get radicalized at the grocery store, that's where.

There's a mosque 4 miles from my house. I'...Read more

Stop the talk about a triumphal arch at the gates of Arlington Cemetery. Stop bullying the Kennedy Center into putting the Trump name on its front. Stop obsessing over the Reflecting Pool. Stop cutting down trees at a public golf course in Washington to make a championship course.

These pictorial distractions -- televised media take note -- ...Read more

It was President Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Remember, he's convinced that everyone loves him. Most of his life is organized so that's all he sees. But occasionally, it is reported, he changes the station. Even more occasionally, all the stations get changed on him and they all are telling the same story.

Trump repudiated. His war ...Read more

"Bluenami!" a friend said of the remarkable turnover of both chambers of Congress from Republican to Democratic control.

Another way to look at the midterms Tuesday is that the voters' verdict found Donald Trump guilty of attempted murder of our democracy. The jury of citizens rescued America on election night.

These two are related, the ...Read more

Inequality in America doesn't just "happen" -- the self-serving actions of corporate powers and political autocrats deliberately create it.

You might have noticed, for example, that your health care costs keep rocketing into the stratosphere. This has left millions of our families with no medical coverage at all, and most of the rest of us ...Read more

After former President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the new president, Lyndon Johnson, was being urged by Democrats to name Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as his vice-presidential running mate in the 1964 election. Problem was, Johnson despised Kennedy, and was going to make him his vice president after hell had frozen over.

Johnson ...Read more

An especially repellant political race is about to fade from the headlines. It would have been less ugly had more politicians traded invective for wit. Humor can take the edge off while retaining the bite.

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand," Mark Twain said. Clever retorts are a superb way to neutralize assailants foaming ...Read more

It's no secret that Americans are facing an affordability crisis. In the weeks leading up to the midterms, voters are inundated with political ads recognizing that Americans are working harder, paying more and getting less. Housing, healthcare, groceries, utilities and other necessities continue to eat up family budgets and show no signs of ...Read more

I've been doing it every day. Stop2End. Stop sending me text messages from my favorite politicians begging for money. Dear Susan, they begin as if they know you (except the ones I get regularly for someone named Virginia who lives in Georgia and must have had a similar number in another life). The system is not flawless. It just seems that way...Read more

In times of crisis -- and who can doubt that we are living in one now? -- political people ask themselves whether they are about to witness a dramatic ideological realignment and, if so, whether the reconfiguration of the left-to-right spectrum of U.S. electoral contests opens up new possibilities for themselves and the issues that motivate ...Read more