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Are Democrats ever going to get their act together? | Dick Polman
I don’t care which faction – the 'centrists' or the 'progressives' – has the better grievances. Just knock it off.
Wise words from George W. Bush that Republicans will ignore | Dick Polman
The problem is, Republicans tore down the House of Bush in 2016 when Trump terminated Jeb with extreme prejudice. Old-school “establishment” conservatism was push out of the party, replaced by populist demagoguery and Putin groupie worship. It has only metastasized since.
Texas is using bounty hunters to enforce its abortion law. Welcome to the thugocracy | Dick Polman
We don't need to worry about the Taliban over there. We have them right here in the USA
A powerful pummeling of Trump’s hack MAGA lawyers | Dick Polman
A federal judge's ruling in Michigan is part of a broader pattern of comeuppance. We should welcome it
It was always going to end this way in Afghanistan | Dick Polman
The harbingers of failure had long been obvious, but most Americans, benumbed by the war, had long ago stopped paying attention.
This Louisiana pol is a COVID widow. She wants deniers to get real | Dick Polman
Kudos to grieving widow Julia Letlow, a Louisiana Republican congresswoman, for setting the record straight. Better late than never.
MAGA values Blue Lives? Remind them of how they treated Ofc. Michael Fanone | Dick Polman
Fascism takes root when people en masse fall down the rabbit hole of alternative reality.
Biden told us what we already know about the MAGA assault on voting rights. Now to stop it | Dick Polman
Democrat seize the moral high ground. But unlike their craven opponents, all too often they bring squirt guns to a shooting war.
Rupert Murdoch is launching Fox Weather. What could possibly go wrong? | Dick Polman
“How do you address the fact that weather changes are caused to some degree by humans when you have a media property with a history of challenging that fact?” one expert asked.
N.Y. indictment is just the start of Trump’s troubles | Dick Polman
it always helps to remember that Al Capone was finally brought down not for murder, but for unpaid taxes.
With debate over communion: Yet another reason for the Catholic church to lose members | Dick Polman
The church opposes the death penalty on principle, but has never sought to deny communion to Catholic politicians who support it.
Journalists can’t be neutral in the war on American democracy | Dick Polman
The old days of both sides false-balance journalism, the old days of writing “on the one hand, on the other hand," are over.