It was the firing heard round the world. With one move, on the advice of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Donald Trump fired James Comey on May 9, 2017. It would change the course of the Trump presidency. Comey, delivering a speech in California,...

At many different points in his presidency, Donald Trump has appeared to have no idea what was actually happening in the administration he is supposed to run. And on Friday, Trump made that fact vividly clear yet again with a stunning — even for...

In 1961, a historian at the University of Pittsburgh named Robert G. Colodny was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Colodny was just one of HUAC’s many targets, a list which included screenwriters like Dalton Trumbo and...

With one tweet of 35 words, Donald Trump has changed almost 40 years of US policy towards Israel and Syria: After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical...

The much anticipated executive order that President Donald Trump issued March 21 to protect free speech on campus is about politics, not policy. The proof is in the executive order itself. The order implies that campuses that limit speech will...

If a Democrat is elected president in November 2020, he or she will have two challenges: one global and one municipal. The first challenge will be how to run the worldwide $643 billion a year military empire of the United States, which surveils...

Forget social media: The semi-official White House propaganda arm, Fox News, is what nurtures Trump's base

Our collective understanding of anti-Semitism has been warped by Donald Trump. Time for some historical truth

As with Vladimir and Estragon awaiting Godot in Samuel Beckett’s play, those eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Mueller Report may have to adjust their expectations. There has been a palpable sense that, when the document finally comes, it...

In the new book “Kushner, Inc.” by Vicky Ward, Jared and Ivanka — people so famous everyone refers to them by their first names — are revealed as exactly what one would expect: spoiled, arrogant, narcissistic, corrupt and...

Last month, the U.S. administration officially announced its intention to block federal family planning funds for organizations that provide abortion referrals. President Donald Trump and his anti-choice Vice-President Mike Pence first presented...

Ever since his days on the election campaign trail the US president, Donald Trump, has assured voters of his intentions to build a wall along the US border with Mexico. He reiterated this promise during the 2019 State of the Union, and then...

America is having a heated debate about the meaning of the word socialism. We’d be better served if, instead, we were debating the meaning of freedom. The Oregonian reported last week that fully 156,000 families are on the edge of homelessness...

Are they angling for a TV show when the Trump train finally derails or sputters to an end?

Donald Trump, speaking in a style that boldly combines the last call drunken rant with the megaphone corner rave, recently proved that three pillars of America’s executive governance are stupidity, racism and delusion. While pounding his chest...