After then-actor Ronald Reagan was fired by GE as host of CBS' "General Electric Theater" in 1962 at the behest of the Kennedy administration, the president-to-be famously switched parties, becoming a Republican.
Misery loves company, and so does mediocrity. President Biden is on the scout for other nations willing to share some of the tax pain he plans to inflict upon the American economy.
The U.S. is acting as if money grows on trees. As if money is some sort of construct, not real, and infinite.
Attempting to stem a mounting surge of gun violence, President Biden has tightened firearms restrictions and urged Congress to take even more ambitious action.
The climate change provisions in President Biden's "Infrastructure" Plan will cost American households $1,400 each year.
There's so little we know about what really happened on Jan. 6.
There is a time in life when human beings have a chance to feel as if they can conquer the world and reach for the stars.
The District of Columbia is an illustrious city, but lately, its pride has been wounded.
One of the fun new talking points offered by the cool kids in the Biden administration is that a new report from Moody's Analytics indicates that President Biden's infrastructure-is-really-everything-we-can-possibly-imagine plan will help create 18.9 million new jobs by 2030.
When the commissioner of Major League Baseball on Friday made the knee-jerk decision to pull the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta to punish Georgia for its new election-integrity law, he involved baseball in something that's none of his — or MLB's — business.
Things are not looking good for Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who made his name and reputation as one of Donald J. Trump's most ardent congressional supporters.
Chaotic times spell trouble for most, opportunity for others.
'Follow the science," has been the emblematic chant of high officeholders during the age of coronavirus.
Old habits die hard, and North Korea has once again greeted new American leadership with the rattling of the saber. Rather than allow the unsettling sound to reverberate unanswered, a more productive course would be to reaffirm progress toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula made during the previous administration, and to ask the North to do the same.
COVID-19 "vaccine passports" will become the next civil-rights crisis of our time. They are un-American, a violation of individual freedom and pose a menacing privacy risk regardless of the entity requiring their use.
'That was then. This is now."
Achievement is rewarded in normal times, but these are not normal times. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan doles out federal dollars to both success and failure for performance during the long pandemic year.
President Biden may have promised middle-class Americans that he wouldn't raise their taxes, but he didn't say he wouldn't boost their costs. In an interconnected society, higher taxes on the wealthy and corporate America radiate outward like ripples on a pond, eventually reaching every wallet. With four years to work its productivity-punishing mischief, Taxageddon is approaching.
Democrats are unwavering in their belief that Black America is still owed an immense debt as redemption for the hate-filled sins of long ago.
When Democrats are in power, they use all of the levers at their disposal to stay in power, legal or illegal.
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