We all know the story. Someone gets furious at the behavior of a health insurance company. Perhaps they are exceptionally ...
In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the ...
The first U.S. missiles that struck the boats in the Caribbean in early September 2025 were described by Washington as a “counter-narcotics operation,” a sterile phrase meant to dull the violence of ...
Kippenstein’s recent discussions of Att. Gen. Pam Bondi’s Memo “Ending Political Violence Against ICE” and Pres. Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memo/NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic ...
Trump first announced his massive tariffs on “Liberation Day,” which was April 2. This was supposed to be the beginning of ...
By mid-2025, the United States once again finds itself confronting a political paradox. President Donald Trump—once the ...
Over the past eleven months, the White House has enacted many questionable, if not contemptible, policies. They include the ...
In U.S. political talk, Iraq is often treated as a “finished chapter.” The invasion is history, the occupation is history, and even the war against ISIS ...
Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is ...
An extraordinary catalog of US interference – amounting to an electoral coup – may have destroyed what was already a ...
In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people ...
If poor people knew how rich rich people are,” Chris Rock once quipped, “there would be riots in the streets.” So, I wonder, what would average taxpayers ...