Month: February 2019

Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage: The joke is on them Part of the Brexiteer mythology is that the EU is made up of incompetent and unprincipled bureaucrats who can be counted on to come grovelling for a compromise even if only...

I have some personal business I have to attend to this afternoon, so this will be somewhat brief. There have been several House Republicans who have complained that the Democrats are forcing them to vote on President...

When I wrote How a Trump Emergency Declaration Became the Mother of All Headaches, I explained how the Senate Republicans stumbled into the situation they now face where they’re on the brink of losing a vote in a chamber...

There are many interesting things in the New York Times’ latest profile of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. I want to focus on how he talks to Republican voters in his home state. Here’s part of what he said...

I’m a progressive. My politics are of a social-democratic variety. I’m Jewish. And I’m a Zionist. The last phrase is going to raise the hackles of some readers, perhaps a lot of readers, just as my hackles are...