Betsy DeVos took the Jared Kushner route to a prominent place in America’s life. She married into it. She did it by betrothing billionaire ($5.5 billion net worth) Dick DeVos, whose father founded Amway. Dick got his turn as CEO. It’s the American way. So is buying influence with lawmakers. Over the years, the DeVos…
Newly elevated, helium-inflated, a president for a bare blink of an eye, Donald Trump chose as one of his first presidential acts a declaration of war on the press. So, how’s that going? Trump called reporters “the enemies of the people.” Henchman Steve Bannon called the media “the opposition party.” Interesting claim from one who…
As we recall now, it was James McCord, our nation’s 37th president, who in 1974 famously said, “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” No? Oh, right; James McCord wasn’t president. He was just the first name of note – a campaign committee schlemiel arrested…
Look at the smiles on those faces. Look at the preening. You’d have thought President Trump and the beaming Republican cohorts standing behind him – Stephen Colbert called it “the strategic white persons reserve” – had just cured cancer. Or accepted ISIS’s surrender. Or returned man to the moon. Or brokered Middle East peace. No.…
“The clownish veneer of Trumpism conceals its true danger,” writes David Remnick in The New Yorker. “Trump’s way of lying is not a joke; it is a strategy, a way of clouding our capacity to think, to live in a realm of truth.” What’s it this week? We are asked to “reform” our tax system,…