LOS ANGELES — We gave a damn too late. Sometimes, I think that will be the legacy of this generation. Or maybe I’m just tired of seeing people walking around without masks as if a pandemic had not taken almost 200,000 American lives. Then again, it could just be the smoke. On a normal morning, […]

There was a time in America, unknown or not experienced by people under the age of 50, when politics was a contact sport played with mostly accepted rules and the equivalent of “sportsmanship.” Losers would graciously concede and wish the victor well, in most cases vowing to work with him or her for the good […]

If there seems heightened energy behind the protests over police shootings of unarmed African-American people, that reflects not a disparity of concern but, rather, of frustration.

The virus should never have been politicized. As many have noted it does not discriminate between political parties or candidates.

What 50 years of writing about economics has taught me.

The latest hammer of a book to fall on President Donald Trump is Bob Woodward’s soon-to-be-released “Rage,” and it’s his own words that are the issue. According to the book, the president told the veteran Washington Post journalist in March that he publicly minimized the danger of the coronavirus: “I wanted to always play it […]