Let’s dispense with the “Are you better off today than four years ago?” pitch. Most people for whom this might matter only see the price of eggs – statistical evidence be damned. Job figures? Great. Stock market? Soaring. Inflation? Moderated. Ah, forget it. Anyway, my wife has a better question to jog political memories: If…
“People in the Republican Party feel very comfortable disenfranchising people, throwing out their votes. Anyone who thinks the opposite has been purged from the Republican Party.” That’s former acting U.S. solicitor general Neal Katyal talking. Such a statement would sound over the top if not coming from one of the nation’s leading legal minds. Are…
Jon Stewart didn’t let Bill Adair finish his sentence, so I’ll do it. Adair, father of Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checker PolitiFact, was discussing his book “Beyond the Big Lie” on “The Daily Show.” A theme of the book is that though politicians of all stripes lie, the GOP’s devotion to it so far exceeds the other…
If you ever wondered what makes a snake slippery, it’s not spray tan. That goo comes from a thin coat of fatty lubricant in a network of scales. We saw the slime at work the other night on TV. No, it wasn’t a Jack Hanna segment. If viewers stayed till the end of the vice…