David Schmalz here. Things aren’t great in America right now, to put it lightly, but if you, like me, were out at one of the nationwide Hands …
David Schmalz here. Next Monday evening, March 17 marks the beginning of the Panetta Institute's 28th annual Leon Panetta Lecture Series, whic…
PETITIONER (DONALD J. TRUMP) argues that as former president of the United States, he is immune to all criminal charges, even after leaving of…
In “Atlantic City” on Bruce Springsteen’s masterpiece Nebraska (1982), a down-on-his-luck tough guy laments, “I got debts that no honest man c…
The nine Supreme Court justices are the nepo-babies of American democracy: They’ve earned nothing, yet act like they own the entire world. Eve…
When the history of this extraordinary era of divisiveness in American society is finally written, the conclusion is likely to be that it was …
An attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at the couple’s San Francisco home represents another in a long series of str…
On Feb. 9, the epilogue to Donald Trump’s presidency began. The post-presidency Senate impeachment trial promises to be both spectacular polit…