Newt Gingrich told a gathering the other day that state and local leaders should embrace “Trumpism.” Not surprisingly, he did not define his terms. Racism? Sexism. Infantilism? Whatever. The former House speaker, whose greatest gift to democracy – correction, to Democrats – was to shut down government in 1996, observes the wreckage Trump wreaks in…
“The prosecution calls Rhona Graff.” Rhona — that’s the name. If Robert Mueller knows what he’s doing, Rhona will play the role of Rosemary – Rosemary Woods — in the 2017 remake of that immense thing that toppled a president in 1974, in what HBO’s John Oliver has dubbed “Stupid Watergate.” Woods was the White…
“There was no place in it where a man counted against a dollar. And worse than there being no decency, there was not even honesty.” So wrote Upton Sinclair about the meat-processing industry in his 1906 masterpiece “The Jungle.” The result of Sinclair’s undercover work in Chicago plants, the novel sparked changes in the way…
Donald Trump and his apologists have put the “con” in “conservative.” Conservatism? He doesn’t stand for anything in particular. What he stands for is the con. What Senate leaders have hilariously named the Better Care Reconciliation Act is just another con — just another luxury vessel Trump wants to christen as his own. “Better Care”…