Once upon a time, Bernie Sanders would have had another political vulnerability besides his socialism — namely, his atheism. In 2016, a Democratic National Committee staffer had to apologize after the WikiLeaks hack exposed an email he wrote that suggested using Bernie’s atheism against him in the primary. This year, Bernie’s religion, or lack of […]

Here’s some advice for Democrats. It will run over 600 words, but I can give you the gist of it in two: Stop whining. Seems like everywhere you go among the party faithful these days, pessimism is all you hear. You can’t shop, turn on the television, fire up social media or just poke your […]

In a Feb. 28 press statement, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a remarkable offer. America “stands with the people of Iran during the public health crisis caused by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19),” the statement said. The U.S. government “is prepared to assist the Iranian people in their response efforts.” The […]

There is a disease going around, and I’m not talking only about the coronavirus. It’s a political disease, and it seems to be spreading, especially among certain politicians who are looking for another way to expel President Trump from office. Last week on the ABC program “The View,” co-host Meghan McCain responded to applause from […]

I know this is an outlier story. It’s about Brooklyn brownstone couples who pay over $2,000 for professionals to choose and care for their houseplants. Houseplant designing is actually a service being offered to the urban and suburban gentry. One such “Plant Doctor & Stylist” charges an hourly rate between $125 and $175. Those are […]

The White House has been walking into a coronavirus trap. By pooh-poohing worries about the virus and saying everything is under control, it is setting itself up for the charge, if things get even a little bad, that it was self-deluding and overly complacent. It will be accused of making mission-accomplished statements before the mission […]

A few weeks ago Karlyn Borysenko from New Hampshire, a knitter by avocation and a liberal democrat by choice, began to feel very uneasy with her online peers as their political vitriol was pointedly and continually directed at anyone who made even the most seemingly innocuous statement in support — or even neutrality toward — […]

“Moderate” candidates won’t be electable if they can’t speak to middle- and working-class frustrations.

The Republican nomination of Donald Trump in 2016 illustrated a hidden weakness in the new system — the absence of peer review.