Dick Polman
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- 03/14/2024 A female Republican’s most thankless job
- 03/08/2024 Joe Biden’s State of the Union was strong. Why am I not surprised?
- 03/07/2024 Have we forgotten Trump’s ‘appalling response’ to the pandemic?
- 02/29/2024 The damage Mitch McConnell has done to democracy is indelible
- 02/22/2024 Trump wants to bring Kremlin values to the White House
- 02/15/2024 Ignore the polls. When real people cast real ballots, Democrats win.
- 02/08/2024 For Republicans, chaos is the point
- 01/25/2024 Trump looks pretty beatable. Just not by Nikki Haley.
- 01/12/2024 Trump is already working to undermine the next election
- 01/04/2024 Three big reasons we can plausibly hope for a sunny 2024 election
- 12/28/2023 Another ‘perfect’ phone call, this time in Michigan
- 12/21/2023 Colorado’s top court read what the Constitution clearly says
- 12/14/2023 Do voters even care if the House is broken beyond repair?
- 12/07/2023 Chris Christie’s quixotic quest to talk sense to Republicans
- 11/30/2023 Judge says Trump ‘engaged in an insurrection’ before making a curious ruling
- 11/16/2023 Welcome to the world of MAGA machismo, where muscles trump brains
- 11/09/2023 The GOP’s shrinking junior varsity team has no clue what to do about abortion
- 11/02/2023 Did you hear about Speaker Mike and the dinosaurs on the Ark?
- 10/26/2023 Mike who? Hello to a Republican loon who loves theocracy.
- 10/19/2023 A gagged Trump doesn’t mean a silent Trump
- 10/12/2023 The world is on fire, but America is stuck with its dysfunctional cult of saboteurs and liars
- 10/05/2023 Burning down the House
- 09/28/2023 What the debating Republicans forgot to mention
- 09/21/2023 Impeaching Biden for non-existent crimes is MAGA madness
- 09/14/2023 Exclusive! Advance transcript of the next Republican presidential debate.
- 09/07/2023 Nikki Haley’s shameless, fascist-adjacent flip flops
- 08/31/2023 Amid Trump’s indictments, remembering Fashiongate and Obama’s tan suit
- 08/25/2023 MAGA clown car bullish about its criminal coup defendant
- 08/16/2023 Trump’s confederacy of dunces was actually ‘a criminal enterprise’
- 08/10/2023 Forced-birth reactionaries tried and failed to rig the game in Ohio
- 08/02/2023 Trump indictment reads like ‘Fascism for Dummies’
- 07/27/2023 Mitch McConnell’s medical moment, and George Washington’s ‘Rules of Civility’
- 07/13/2023 A trio of Trump lawyers have destroyed their reputations and careers
- 07/07/2023 Republicans crying about cocaine have forgotten Jan. 6
- 06/29/2023 Democrat’s appealing message for 2024: Getting -bleep- done
- 06/22/2023 The Hunter Biden hunt ends with a whimper
- 06/15/2023 Trump didn’t get the turnout he wanted for his Miami perp walk
- 06/08/2023 Chris Christie’s can’t win, but he can serve a good purpose
- 06/02/2023 We should feel good about sane adults reaching across the aisle
- 05/25/2023 The Republican presidential contest is getting awfully crowded
- 05/18/2023 Trumpists are hyping John Durham’s dud report
- 05/11/2023 Trump suckered CNN right into his sewer
- 05/04/2023 Is Tucker Carlson’s detestable text really the smoking gun?
- 04/26/2023 Let me tell you a story about Tucker Carlson
- 04/20/2023 For Fox News, the cost of doing business
- 04/13/2023 Generation Z, flexing its muscle, imperils MAGA Republicans
- 04/06/2023 When will Republicans realize that banning abortion is political suicide?
- 03/30/2023 ‘How is this still happening? How are our children still dying?’
- 03/23/2023 Bracing for Stormy weather, right-wing hypocrites hunker in the MAGA bunker
- 03/16/2023 Ron DeSantis talks tough to Disney, but appeases Putin
- 03/02/2023 The Fox rot starts at the top
- 02/23/2023 Electing judges is sleaze incarnate
- 02/16/2023 Georgia’s special grand jury reaches unanimous conclusion about Trump’s lies
- 02/08/2023 Are you really surprised by Joe Biden’s impressive State of the Union?
- 02/02/2023 Republicans doing the same thing over and over again
- 01/27/2023 If you thought Donald Trump was the worst, check out Mike Pompeo
- 01/19/2023 Another day, another George Santos revelation
- 01/12/2023 False equivalence cops on the Biden classified document case
- 12/28/2022 George Santos and the normalization of bald-faced lies
- 12/15/2022 Gay marriage no longer a right-wing wedge issue
- 12/08/2022 Republicans can’t seem to fathom why they were beaten
- 12/01/2022 Biden at age 80: How old is too old?
- 11/09/2022 America’s post-midterm forecast: Sunnier than we dared to dream
- 10/27/2022 A Keystone catastrophe
- 10/21/2022 Republican perv pulls his campaign after being caught with his pants down
- 10/12/2022 Correcting a lie about George H.W. Bush
- 10/06/2022 Shocked Republicans are still backing Herschel Walker? You shouldn’t be.
- 09/29/2022 Will Ron DeSantis learn anything from Hurricane Ian?
- 09/23/2022 Trump and the very best mind like you wouldn’t believe
- 09/09/2022 This is CNN. The Cowardly News Network.
- 09/01/2022 Every picture tells a story. This one writes itself.
- 08/26/2022 Democrats have a ‘freedom’ ditty for the midterm elections
- 08/18/2022 For America’s best lawyers, Trump is a leper
- 08/11/2022 Don’t be too quick to say no to Uncle Joe
- 08/04/2022 Red-state Kansas sends a message to right-wing theocrats
- 07/28/2022 Rupert Murdoch is scraping you-know-who off the sole of his shoe
- 07/21/2022 Republican’s nutcase candidates stoke Democratic hopes
- 07/14/2022 Willful blindness is no defense when you summon a mob to wreak havoc
- 06/30/2022 Catholic Ireland is more progressive than America about abortion
- 06/23/2022 What happens when honest private citizens get targeted by fascists
- 06/17/2022 Grassroots MAGA termites are chewing the woodwork of democracy
- 06/03/2022 Let’s move to Australia, where they confiscate mass murder weapons
- 05/26/2022 Here in arsenal America, everything old is new again
- 05/18/2022 Pennsylvania, birthplace of democracy, could elect America’s first fascist governor
- 05/03/2022 Lazy Democrats deserve prime blame for the ruination of Roe v. Wade
- 04/28/2022 Hillary Clinton keeps getting it right
- 04/14/2022 Putin has a chance to conquer France
- 04/07/2022 Mourning the loss of a loved one is not a disease
- 03/30/2022 How much more evidence does Merrick Garland need to indict Trump?
- 03/17/2022 The predictably lying liars are plotting to give Joe pain at the pump
- 03/03/2022 Is America strong enough to endure domestic sacrifice?
- 02/24/2022 In time of war, Republicans giving aid and comfort to the enemy
- 02/17/2022 Sandy Hook parents beat the gun merchants
- 02/09/2022 Big deal, Trump broke another law
- 02/02/2022 Clarence and Ginni Thomas, poster couple for high court corruption
- 01/25/2022 Life becomes ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
- 01/20/2022 It’s Uncle Joe versus his implacable foes
- 01/12/2022 NPR showed us the best way to interview a totalitarian liar
- 01/05/2022 ‘Don’t Look Up!’ is a documentary masquerading as satire
- 12/22/2021 The 2021 Coup d’Etat Trivia Quiz!
- 12/15/2021 Now Rand Paul Is In Favor of Big Government
- 12/09/2021 Democrats Have Failed To Protect Abortion Rights
- 12/01/2021 There’s No Cure For Covidiocy
- 11/18/2021 Chris Christie’s Rehabilitation Humiliation
- 11/11/2021 Charlottesville Defendants Turn Trial into a Platform for Hate
- 11/03/2021 Don’t Look Now, But Winter is Coming
- 10/26/2021 You Would Not Want To Be In Merrick Garland’s Shoes
- 10/19/2021 Country First: Let’s Remember Colin Powell At His Best
- 09/28/2021 Are Democrats Going to Get Their Act Together or What?
- 09/14/2021 Wise Words From George W. Bush That Republicans Will Ignore
- 09/02/2021 To Control Women’s Bodies, Texas Empowers Bounty Hunters
- 08/26/2021 A Powerful Pummeling of Trump’s Hack MAGA Lawyers
- 08/17/2021 It Was Always Going to End This Way in Afghanistan
- 08/05/2021 COVID Widow Tells Deniers to Get Real
- 07/28/2021 Words the MAGA Cult Don’t Want You to Hear
- 07/21/2021 Sean Hannity Suggests Fox News Should Stop Killing People
- 07/14/2021 Very Nice, Uncle Joe. But You Only Told Us What We Already Know.
- 07/08/2021 Rupert Murdoch is Launching Fox Weather. We Can Only Imagine…
- 07/01/2021 Indictment is Just the Start of Trump’s Troubles
- 06/22/2021 Yet Another Reason the Church Keeps Losing Members
- 06/16/2021 In the War on American Democracy, Journalists Can’t Be Neutral
- 06/09/2021 Texas is Whitewashing its Racist History
- 05/27/2021 RIP John Warner, a Republican Who Worked Across the Aisle. Imagine That.
- 05/20/2021 Democrats Shouldn’t Negotiate With Terrorists
- 05/11/2021 Is Chris Christie Pathetic, Shrewd, or Pathetically Shrewd?
- 05/06/2021 Laud Liz Cheney For Defending Truth, But Don’t Forget Her Father’s Lies
- 04/29/2021 Supreme Sleaze: Amy Coney Barrett’s Corrupt Conflict of Interest
- 04/22/2021 Fake Vaccine Cards and the Cult of American Selfishness
- 04/14/2021 Some Evangelical Christians Have Forgotten Their Moral Duty
- 04/07/2021 So Now Republicans Hate Coke and Baseball
- 04/01/2021 This Time Infrastructure Week Is For Real
- 03/24/2021 White Republicans Who Oppose D.C. Statehood Are More Hilarious Than Ever
- 03/16/2021 Long Live Obamacare. Now It’s NoMalarkeyCare.
- 03/12/2021 Biden is the Best Man for this Pivotal Moment
- 03/10/2021 Can We Please Not Talk Anymore About the Royals?
- 03/04/2021 Functionally Illiterate About Our Own Democracy
- 02/25/2021 Republicans Suddenly Clutching Their Pearls About Mean Tweets
- 02/18/2021 Limbaugh Was Trump Long Before We Got Trump
- 02/16/2021 Texas Needed Help From an ‘Illegitimate’ President
- 02/10/2021 Trump’s Impeachment Lawyer Was Not Philly’s finest
- 02/02/2021 Starved for Some Good News? Listen to the New Secretary of State.
- 01/27/2021 Show Me the Money: Put Tubman on the Twenty
- 01/20/2021 Goodbye MAGA, Hello MGWA (Make Government Work Again)
- 01/12/2021 Mike Pence Feels Very Aggrieved. Where’s My Violin?
- 01/07/2021 Trump’s Mob Runs Wild. Why is Anyone Shocked?
- 01/04/2021 Another Perfect Beautiful Trump Call
- 12/30/2020 A Young, Healthy Republican Spoke at a Maskless Rally. Now He’s Dead.
- 12/23/2020 Trump Pardons Four Murdering War Criminals. That’s Our Boy.
- 12/17/2020 Lest We Forget, Republicans Were Un-American Long Before Trump
- 12/08/2020 Can Disease-Spreading Dolts Be Reasoned With?
- 12/01/2020 Scott Atlas Has Quit, But Can’t Scrub the Blood Off His Hands
- 11/19/2020 How Does Emily Murphy Sleep At Night?
- 11/17/2020 Just Peachy: As Georgia Goes, So Goes the Senate
- 11/10/2020 Science Triumphant: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Vivek Murthy
- 10/30/2020 Six Reasons to Wave Bye Bye to the Biden Family ‘Scandal’
- 10/27/2020 Biden’s Statement to Slowly Move From Oil to Renewable Energy is a Gaffe?
- 10/20/2020 Another Profile in Courage from the GOP Cowardice Corps
- 10/16/2020 Whenever Trump Flaps His Yap, He Makes the Best Case for Biden
- 10/13/2020 Flailing Trump Thinks Time Travel Will Rescue His Campaign
- 10/08/2020 My Exclusive Interview With the Fly That Sat on Mike Pence’s Head
- 10/06/2020 Trump Makes It Tough to be Sympathetic
- 10/02/2020 The Ultimate October Surprise is Not a Surprise at All
- 09/30/2020 Biden Spoke For All of Us When He Told Trump to ‘Shut Up’
- 09/22/2020 Dr. Trump Can’t Resist Looking Foolish on Coronavirus
- 09/16/2020 ’Please Stop, Sir’: Trump Rebuked By Philly Voter
- 09/10/2020 Trump Knew. End of Story.
- 09/09/2020 Who’s Jonesing to Inject Trump’s Miracle Vaccine?
- 09/01/2020 Dick Polman on vacation
- 08/28/2020 Trump Turns the People’s House into a Petri Dish
- 08/25/2020 The New Republican Platform: ‘I’m With Stupid!’
- 08/21/2020 Joe Biden Wants to ‘Make Hope and History Rhyme’
- 08/19/2020 2020 Election: Biden Versus ‘A Grave Counterintelligence Threat’
- 08/12/2020 Kamala Harris and the Promise of America
- 08/04/2020 A Female Veep Nominee: After Two Whiffs, A Potential Winning Hit
- 07/29/2020 Republicans Want To Help Beat Trump. Enter Angry Liberals.
- 07/23/2020 Three Big Reasons Why Joe Biden Continues To Trump Trump
- 07/21/2020 Hypocrisy On Parade: Praising John Lewis While Ruining His Life’s Work
- 07/14/2020 Dr. Fauci, We Always Knew It Would Come To This
- 07/07/2020 Trump and Hoover Show What Happens When Businessmen Become President
- 07/01/2020 Oklahoma Delivers a Decisive Win… To Obama
- 06/18/2020 Bolton Refused To Help When It Mattered Most. But There’s An Upside.
- 06/08/2020 ‘Defund The Police’ A Slogan Ripe For Republican Exploitation
- 05/26/2020 Trump Is Dragging A Dead Woman Through The Mud
- 05/21/2020 Trump Is Preparing To Yell ‘Fraud!’ If He Loses In November
- 05/12/2020 The Fake ‘Obamagate’ Is Trump’s New Birther Con
- 05/07/2020 Refusing to Wear a Mask is America at its Worst
- 04/30/2020 Firing Rick Bright Was the Trump Regime at its Darkest
- 04/23/2020 America’s Dumbest Governor is Fixin’ to Get More People Killed
- 04/15/2020 Six reasons Why Uncle Joe is Well Positioned to Topple Trump
- 03/25/2020 Trump and Fox News: Deadly Lies in a Feedback Loop
- 03/12/2020 As Coronavirus Spreads, Trump Showing How Unfit He Is To Lead
- 03/04/2020 Uncle Joe Is On Top, and That’s No Malarkey
- 02/23/2020 Here’s how Bernie can beat Trump! (Possibly. Theoretically.)
- 02/12/2020 New Hampshire Muddle: Bernie Underwhelms the Yogi Berra Democrats
- 02/04/2020 Dear Democrats: Beat Bernie Sanders, Or You’ll Feel the Burn
- 01/30/2020 Goodbye, Democracy. Hello, King Donald the First.
- 01/22/2020 The Trump Trial is Democracy’s Ultimate Stress Test
- 01/09/2020 Michael Corleone Could Teach Trump a Lesson About Iran
- 12/31/2019 Buzz Off, 2019: A Pop Quiz On This Year’s Trumpster Fire
- 12/26/2019 A Fresh Gesture of Concern From the Fellowship of the Furrowed Brow
- 12/11/2019 Will Impeachment Hurt Trump in 2020? Here’s the Case for Optimism.
- 12/04/2019 Snarky Mockery of Joe Biden is Sheer Malarkey
- 11/26/2019 A Court Ruling To Be Thankful For: ‘Presidents Are Not Kings’
- 11/21/2019 Ambassador Goes Full Agatha Christie on the Trump Regime
- 11/14/2019 Why are Republicans Still Obsessed with the Whistleblower?
- 11/07/2019 Republicans Remain Tethered to Toxic Trump
- 11/04/2019 How to Lose the 2020 Election, by Elizabeth Warren
- 10/22/2019 ‘But Her Emails!’ A Final Farewell to a Fake Scandal
- 10/16/2019 Put Your Hands Together For Pete and Amy
- 10/15/2019 What Most of the Impeachment Heroes Have in Common
- 09/17/2019 Boosting Social Security: Elizabeth Warren’s Potentially Winning Issue
- 09/04/2019 Has Trump Lowered the Bar for Biden’s Serial Gaffes?
- 08/29/2019 Don’t Immediately Dismiss Trump’s Republican Challenger
- 08/20/2019 Democrats Wrong to Turn Their Backs on Anti-Trump Republicans
- 08/14/2019 Even if Democrats Dump Trump, They’ll Need to Ditch Mitch
- 08/01/2019 The Democratic Circular Firing Squad Forgot About Trump
- 07/23/2019 Mueller’s Testimony: Impeachment Accelerant or Anticlimax?
- 07/15/2019 Trump’s Racist Tweets: A Foretaste of Toxic 2020
- 06/27/2019 Elizabeth Warren Wants To Abolish Private Health Insurance. Uh Oh.
- 06/25/2019 The Numbing of America: Trump Allegations Treated As Old News
- 06/11/2019 In Defense of Joe Biden’s Switcheroo
- 05/22/2019 Meet the Conservative Republican Who’s Putting Country Over Party
- 05/16/2019 We’re One Supreme Court Case Away From Outlawing Abortion
- 05/13/2019 What Democrats Fear Most in 2020: A Bullish Trump Economy
- 02/26/2019 The Trump Regime Wants to Believe the Earth is Flat
- 02/18/2019 Fealty to Trump or the Constitution?
- 02/05/2019 Chris Christie is Desperate for Any Piece of the Action
- 01/29/2019 Five Takeaways from the Farcical Trump Shutdown
- 01/15/2019 Border ‘Crisis’ Distracts Us From the True National Emergency
- 01/10/2019 If President Hillary Clinton Had Stormed Out of a Meeting…
- 01/01/2019 A Dirty Dozen Trump Trivia Quiz
- 12/25/2018 Are Republicans Finally Smelling the Trumpster Fire?
- 12/21/2018 Should There Be a TV Ban on Kellyanne?
- 12/11/2018 The Republican Election Fraud that Trump Refuses to Tweet About
- 12/04/2018 Before He Was ‘Kinder, Gentler,’ Poppy Bush Pioneered TV Ad Lies
- 11/19/2018 The Ridiculous Democratic Rebellion Against Nancy Pelosi
- 11/07/2018 Blue Wave Meets Red Wall: Split decision for a Divided Nation
- 10/30/2018 Trump Sows the Wind, Reaps the Whirlwind
- 10/03/2018 There’s One Big Loser in the Kavanaugh Fight
- 09/24/2018 Republicans Determined to Alienate as Many Women as Possible
- 09/12/2018 All Talk, No Action: A Republican Metaphor
- 08/26/2018 Democratic Diversity is Making America Great Again
- 08/02/2018 Donald Trump and ‘The Death of Truth’
- 07/25/2018 Lots of Tips on How to Live Sanely in Trumplandia
- 07/10/2018 Trump Buys Survival Insurance From Brett Kavanaugh
- 07/03/2018 Hey, Democrats: It’s The Supreme Court Stupid
- 06/19/2018 Will Trump’s Kid Cruelty Sink the GOP in November?
- 06/12/2018 Trump Envies ‘Love’ for North Korean Dictator
- 05/23/2018 Four Reasons Democrats Could Lose the Congressional Midterms
- 05/16/2018 The Profiteer-in-Chief Goes Belly Up for China