About half the population will be happy on this Inauguration Day, the other half not so much. There must be a better way to distribute political power so that happiness (which, after all, is written ...

One takeaway from the 2024 elections is the dizzying partisan gap between young men and women. Young men were fully 32 points more likely to vote Republican, a gender gap far larger than anything ever ...

America’s leaders have a funny way of showing their determination to make the federal government work again. President Donald Trump cared so much that he went golfing. Nothing shows a chief ...

My modest proposal: anyone writing about Social Security should have to pass a test demonstrating that they have read the Social Securities trustees report, and understand the basic dynamics of a ...

The unresolved cruelties of America’s past are a common topic in our politics, and many believe Native Americans and African Americans deserve compensation for the injustice suffered by their ...

Billionaire Tom Steyer has the chance to do something amazing. Does Steyer mean it? Political campaigns are basically performance art now and it’s hard to tell where any candidate really stands.

I have a modest proposal. We’ll get to it in a moment but, first, let’s talk about “Maus.” That, of course, is Art Spiegelman’s two-part graphic novel of his father’s experience in the Holocaust, ...