Category: Opinion

I recently watched “A Face in the Crowd” for the umpteenth time. I had a better reason than procrastination to rewatch Elia Kazan’s brilliant 1957 […]

In June 2017, with President Trump newly installed in office for the first time, one of the biggest battles with the administration was about oil. […]

Gerald Kowalczyk tried to buy a hamburger with credit cards he found on the floor. Then, while presumed innocent, he spent months in a California […]

President Trump recently described the U.S. naval blockade of Iran as “a very friendly blockade.” There is no such thing. A blockade is an act […]

Who won the 2020 election? Was the Capitol attacked on Jan. 6, 2021? Can Donald Trump be elected to a third term as president? No […]

Democrats have a huge opportunity to make a huge difference. But whether they’ll grab it is a huge question. In 2020, I wrote that voters […]

Television producers Jonathan Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim didn’t set out to change the landscape of media when they approached MTV in 1991 about their idea […]

In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital […]

To the editor: The laudatory Ted Turner obituaries rightfully acknowledged his groundbreaking decision to launch CNN and his commitment to peace and the environment (“Ted […]

To the editor: As the op-ed makes clear, of course we need a new Democratic president to heal our country (“Which Democrat could repair the […]