Madman of Chu

It's A Wonderful Life is my favorite film, which is saying something because I've seen lots of films. This year the film seems p...

The recent debacle at the UN touches upon a subject that is a source of confusion and rancor among my fellow Jewish-Americans. When, about a...

Today's UN General Assembly vote demanding that the US rescind its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is another object ...

Doug Jones's victory over Roy Moore in last Tuesday's special election in Alabama will be repeatedly analyzed in the weeks and month...

The fall of Raqqa, the putative capital of the caliphate declared by ISIS within the territory they held for more than three years, is a vit...

An inflexible math governs American political life at the current moment, grounded in ratios that control the behavior of our sovereign inst...

Donald Trump returns from his first overseas excursion as President to meet predictable choruses of praise and criticism from opposing preci...

The assault on a reporter by Montana Congressional candidate Greg Gianforte brings our politics to a new inflection point. Democracy is a fr...

Dear President Trump,         Though I am a lifelong Democrat and voted against you last fall, I approach you not as a partisan but as a f...

Airstrikes launched against Syria by the Trump administration on April 6 prove Marx's adage about history transpiring first as tragedy, ...

I cannot believe I was alone in feeling cognitive dissonance while listening to the testimony of former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts before...

The embarrassing failure of the GOP caucus to make good on their six-year pledge to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act i...

Watching Donald Trump stand next to Bibi Netanyahu yesterday was an exercise in dizzying optics. However much I vehemently disagree with Pri...

As the second week of the Trump presidency rolls on, the struggle ensues to make sense of the herky-jerky motion of the administration in po...