On Monday, the White House hastily organized a press teleconference on the Iranian nuclear deal. The accord—brokered by the world’s six major powers two years ago—is to President Trump’s foreign policy what Obamacare is to his domestic policy: he is Read More …
Last night, at Sully’s Bar & Grill, which sits across the street from the Carrier Corporation’s furnace plant, on the west side of Indianapolis, and serves as the de-facto company bar, two of Carrier’s soon-to-be-laid-off longtime employees had a drink Read More …
What with U.S. aircraft carriers sailing in the wrong direction, Attorney General Jeff Sessions describing Hawaii as “an island in the Pacific,” and Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock larking around in the Oval Office, it’s been a pretty Read More …
The Australian national postal service is currently busier than usual: it is in the middle of delivering ballots for the Australian Marriage Law Survey to the postboxes of sixteen million eligible voters. On each form is a single question: “Should Read More …
Click:Kraft paper bag In the always active “it’s tough to be a guy” department, few recent developments are more choice than the announcement, last week, by His Royal Highness Prince Henrik of Denmark that he refuses to be buried next Read More …
The latest edition of “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly,” which aired last night, opens with a shot of a bulky man hunched over a desk, fiddling with a yellow highlighter, casting a sideways glance at the camera. “Pizzagate, as it’s Read More …
“It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.,” Donald Trump said last October, before presenting his “five-point plan” for improving ethical standards in government. “This is why I’m proposing a package of ethics reforms to make our government Read More …
Terrorists, on Wednesday, attacked two of the most important symbols of Iran’s Islamic government—its well-guarded parliament building and the lavish shrine where the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is buried. The basic facts, as reported by Iranian media, followed a Read More …
On Monday morning, President Trump finally got around to reciting a few appropriate sentences about the lethal violence that white supremacists had unleashed over the weekend at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Racism is evil,” the President announced. The guilty Read More …
According to news accounts, the tax plan that the Trump Administration will release on Wednesday won't be a comprehensive proposal but, rather, a statement of general principles—a glorified wish list. It's well known in Washington that the staffers working for Read More …