Hillary Clinton spoke to the national meeting of the American Federation of Teachers in Minneapolis yesterday. She appears not to have tripped any plagiarism alarms, but…
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No stolen convention, but stolen words! One would think that a billionaire Republican running for President could afford to buy his wife a team of speech…
As we lurch into the lurid carnival of Cleveland, it occurs to me that by choosing Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, Donald Trump has increased…
Conservative wags are dancing on the graves of the 84 victims of the Nice massacre by challenging liberals to call for truck control: “I fully expect…
Senator Bernie Sanders brought the last two months of his bridge-building and platform-wrangling to their expected, logical conclusion: he said, in so many words, “I am endorsing…
Along with giving the Sanders campaign 80% of what it wants, the national Democratic Party platform, as drafted last weekend, rejects the poor-shaming misogyny of the Hyde…
My man Bernie Sanders may be about to endorse Hillary Clinton, and Sanders may be securing Clinton’s and the party’s support on key policy issues (public option and…
Hobby Lobby buys up the back page of my Fourth of July paper to remind me that they think America is only for people like them…