Commentary: Why forgiving student debt is a bad idea
One good rule of thumb is to judge parties and politicians by their priorities. Politicians often pretend to be for every good thing under the sun, so the best way...
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Column: Scrapping the Electoral College is a bad idea
Let's squarely face an ugly possibility: President Donald Trump could get elected a second time without winning the popular vote. Indeed, according to most experts, that's the only way he...
Commentary: Trump aside, Hispanic vote is not a given for Democrats
As ambivalent as I am about a Donald Trump victory — or, for that matter, a Joe Biden one — there is one scenario I would enjoy: What if Trump...
Column: Democrats, don’t let the far left hijack your party
Last week, a mob of white protesters swarmed a white woman eating dinner in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Video of the bullies demanding that patrons raise their...
Column: The party’s over for party conventions
The party conventions are over — and I don't just mean the 2020 conventions. In one sense, the conventions have been over for a very long time. They were created...
Column: No, progressives, it’s not always as easy as asking ‘Why not?’
In George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah," the serpent says to Eve in the Garden of Eden: "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never...
Column: Will Birtherism 2.0 influence any voters?
The Birtherism 2.0 brouhaha began the way so many do. A Donald Trump sycophant, in this case Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, handed the president a hot-take opinion piece as...
Column: Trump’s questioning of Biden’s mental acuity is risky
President Donald Trump's interview with Chris Wallace, which aired on "Fox News Sunday," was remarkable in more ways than there is room to recount here. But let's start with what...
Column: Let’s settle this once and for all, with mandatory voting
Let's have an experiment. Before I propose it, let me set the stage a bit. I have long been a critic of most "reforms" to the voting process. While I'm...
Column: The GOP would never toss Trump overboard — or would they?
As the Trump campaign flounders under the accumulated weight of the pandemic, the economic crisis, the mass protests and a Twitter account plugged straight into the president's limbic system, I...