Jan 13, 2022
For an explanation of why vaccinated people are still wearing masks, taking COVID-19 tests and quarantining, even though their risk of hospitalization or death from the omicron variant is minimal, look to critical race theory.
Jan 3, 2022
It’s early yet, 2026 is four years off, but activity is already stirring in connection with the sestercentennial, or the semiquincentennial.
Dec 21, 2021
President Biden is having a bad week, to cap off a bad year. And it may get even worse. Biden pitched himself to the voters on the basis of his ability to get things done on Capitol Hill. Yet now his signature piece of domestic policy legislation has gone down in flames.
Dec 16, 2021
Instead of focusing on the alarming and dramatic increase in violent crime, the D.A. is obsessing over the former president’s old tax returns , and playing amateur archeologist in the arcane world of classical antiquities.
Dec 8, 2021
If the Republican Party is going to return to its heyday of the 1984 Reagan landslide, it will need to get better than it has been at attracting independents and crossover Democrats like those who twice elected Baker in Massachusetts.
Nov 30, 2021
High gas prices, American retreat abroad, urban crime, drug addiction and talk of an Olympic boycott are all contributing to a sense that America is experiencing a kind of re-run of the late-1970s. As if those factors weren't enough, add arms control.
Nov 24, 2021
Black interest in cryptocurrency, which is, after all, a kind of free-market, private alternative to government-issued money, is a sign of a deeper Black skepticism about government.
Nov 17, 2021
But voters being sold the solar stimulus promise may remember that we tried this before already and the results weren't all sunshine.