A lot can happen in 90 seconds. In 2013, it took the flight attendants on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 only 90 seconds to evacuate nearly 300 people […]
Columns/Opinion
Trump attempting to invade the Democratic Party
President Trump’s path to re-election goes through the Democratic Party. Goal No. 1 is to get Democrats to eliminate his greatest threat: Joe Biden. It’s not the […]
Democrats next stop is the Twilight Zone
A 1961 “Twilight Zone” episode starred Peter Falk as a Central American revolutionary whose paranoia leads to his destruction. The dictator he has deposed tells him about […]
Remarkable wins for democracy
Ever since Brexiters and Donald Trump won in 2016, the world’s big-picture political story has been that democracy is under siege. This summer, Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in […]
My, how the times have seriously changed
You may, if you are old enough, recall a TV actor named Foster Brooks. He was a guest star on such classics of boomer kitsch as “The […]
Schiff’s riff on call true, but unwise
The ratcheting up of the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry has pushed President Trump to new extremes of craziness. Consider the president’s deranged attack Monday morning on Rep. […]
No winning collegiate arms race
Erin M. Carr The Baltimore Sun Like many institutions we implicitly trust, our higher education system is assumed to be an engine of social good. Collectively, we […]
Old-school Democrats set to face primary challenges
PITTSBURGH Jerry Dickinson is the Democrats’ perfect House candidate — and not just on paper. Yes, he’s young, accomplished, academic and a charismatic liberal outsider who supports […]
Pelosi and the power of restraint on impeachment
For a long time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a stop sign before vocal Democrats’ revving demands to get President Donald Trump’s impeachment on the road. Now […]
Ukraine: Political rerun to unseat Trump
Back when reruns were a staple of summer programming, television networks aired repeats of their programs, giving viewers another opportunity to see what they had already seen. […]