Breaking news: “Trump says Pentagon Budget Too Big.” Follow-up report: “Pentagon Agrees.” This unexpected budgetary breakthrough comes because Donald The... Read more...
“Far-flung” doesn’t describe America’s war reach. Our military personnel, technology, and taxpayers’ money are in so many places that the... Read more...
Our fearless "leader," who cravenly got his rich daddy to help him dodge actual war during the Vietnam era, is now up on his high horse--in comic Napoleonic pose-- demanding that the Pentagon, Congress, and we taxpayers set up another military bureaucracy for sending future youngsters to war: Space Force. Read more...
It’s over. Dealmaker Donald says he’s ended America’s long nightmare in Afghanistan, finally halting 18-plus years of grinding war–the longest... Read more...
Although deportation injustices have long been a blot on our country's "Give me your tired, your poor" pretensions, Trump has turned immigration policy into a despotic nightmare of presumed guilt, mass incarceration, and what amount to death-sentence deportations. This month's Lowdown reveals how "zero tolerance" violates the rights of immigrants, while undermining our own rights and, in the process, shriveling the basic value of fairness that binds democratic societies together. Read more...
A majority of the public almost always blesses new presidents with a honeymoon gift. In a gesture of patriotic fairness,... Read more...
In high school, I had a girlfriend who was involved in student government and all sorts of good works. While... Read more...
A decade ago, some barons of the media establishment designated themselves America’s official arbiters of political truth (or “truthiness,” as... Read more...
Buckle up, friends. Most Americans are about to be detoured onto a rough and rocky back road called “Trump Way.”... Read more...
Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride. Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to... Read more...
What an election year. I feel like I’ve been transported through a cosmic squirrel hole into a baffling political universe... Read more...
Being a muckraking political writer often makes me feel like a custodian in a horse barn, constantly shoveling manure. It’s... Read more...