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If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz win the White House on Nov. 5, the Democrats may owe their triumph to the notorious character flaw that plagues the Republican Party of Donald Trump: an irresistible urge to grift.

In an election likely to be determined by a very narrow proportion of votes in a few states, the difference between winning and ...Read more

I used to drink tequila.

I drank it when I was a lot younger. I only drank it seriously for about six months, then I stopped, which is one of the reasons I got to be a lot older.

It had some romance, tequila did.

I drank it straight, out of a shot glass, with the salt and the lemon in the non-shot glass hand.

Drinking tequila that way, in ...Read more

I recently spent time flying to various regions of this country and was struck by how nice almost everyone was. Whether boarding to New York, Chicago or Albuquerque, I found fellow passengers to be super polite, patient with slow movers, helpful lifting bags into the overhead. The number of racial and ethnic backgrounds sharing the aircrafts ...Read more

It was a front-page story in The Washington Post back in October 2019. Amazon was in line to receive a $10 billion contract from the Department of Defense for cloud computing (the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract) when, at the last minute, the contract was awarded to Microsoft. Then-President Donald Trump has been ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Greetings from riding shockwaves in the nerve center of the free world.

Bleak fury is passed around like the plague here since The Washington Post's owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, nixed its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

This column before Election Day is filled with foreboding.

Then came former President Donald ...Read more

Woody Guthrie satirized Depression-era bankers who routinely gouged farmers and poor people. "I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I," Woody sang about the joyful lenders who profiteered on people's misery.

Woody's song could be sung today by Bharat Masrani, CEO of the TD Bank empire. Investigative digger Judd Legum reports that Masrani has ...Read more

On Feb. 20, 1939, 20,000 Americans filled New York City's Madison Square Garden to pronounce themselves Nazis, giving Nazi salutes and cheering for Adolf Hitler. The rally took place just two days before George Washington's birthday, the stage outfitted with a massive portrait of our first president, flanked by both American flags and ...Read more

The first chilly day of the year, I heard scary banging in the basement. It was the boiler.

I walked upstairs and woke my husband.

"Honey, there's banging in the basement," I said.

"You've got a guy," he responded, half-asleep.

My husband, you see, is a master plumber. When someone desperately needs a plumber or an electrician or another ...Read more

Greeted by the newly constructed "Detroit" sign, my colleagues and I arrived in the Motor City for the final stop on the ACLU's Know Your Rights bus tour. We didn't actually ride our Know Your Rights bus to Detroit. Instead, we arrived to find the bus in all its glory parked outside the Garden Theater, just off the bustling Woodward Avenue. ...Read more

Sitting at dinner in a local restaurant, I saw breaking news come across the TV screen near the bar. It read, "Washington Post says its editorial board is done with presidential endorsements." This was on the heels of LA Times editors resigning over the decision not to endorse a presidential candidate.

It's interesting to me that this is ...Read more

It was a week that would doom most candidates for high office. It began with Donald Trump going on a riff about Arnold Palmer's penis size, that the late golfer's daughter understandably found offensive. Did his supporters? Apparently not.

It got worse from there. If you don't mind a president who is focused on penis size, what about one who ...Read more

Democrats centered Vice President Kamala Harris' election campaign around the threat to American democracy posed by former President Donald Trump's possible return to office. The issue may not weigh on voters' minds as heavily as the economy, but it does resonate; polls show that Americans trust Harris more to counter political extremism and ...Read more

One of the great things about being a parent is getting to witness your child become who they are. The process can be scary, though. Kids try on different personas in attempts to figure it all out while in an environment that is inherently unkind: school. Peers can be brutally honest and not very kind. Parents naturally want to protect their ...Read more

The fake news and the corrupt Deep State FBI have convinced Americans that we have a lot of mass killings in this America. The fake figures are backed up by some communist university where the most popular course is taught by a drag queen. The course is called "God Sucks Let's Burn the Flag 101."

According to those very bad, deranged liars, ...Read more

Donald Trump's tax and spending plans would add enormous amounts to the national debt, with some estimates as high as $15 trillion over a decade. But some of his tax cuts stand apart in threatening one of America's most revered programs, Social Security. They would essentially bankrupt it by 2031.

This is not some far-off worry. We're talking...Read more

An ABC story, which should have gotten more attention than it did, reports that a proposed appointment roster entitled "Transition Planning: Legal Principals" lists Judge Aileen Cannon, the federal district judge who threw out the classified documents case against Donald Trump, as a candidate for attorney general if Trump gets elected. Cannon,...Read more