Dick Polman

The State of the Union is usually a useless stale slog that turns healthy brain cells to mush. Charlie Cook, the veteran Washington pundit, got ... Read More

How fitting it is that just days after Groundhog Day, Americans have awoken to discover yet again that House Republicans are doing anew what they’ve long ... Read More

The good news is many Republicans want to leave Donald Trump in the dust. The bad news is so many of them are just as ... Read More

With all my heart I cherish the saga of George Santos (aka Anthony Devolder, aka Anthony Zabrovsky) because he’s the quintessential epitome of the MAGA ... Read More

When news broke the other day that President Biden’s lawyers had found a few documents with classified markings in a think-tank office he once used, ... Read More

Decades ago, Holocaust scholar Hannah Arendt warned: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for ... Read More

As I watched President Biden sign the historic marriage equality law, his latest of many legislative achievements, I couldn’t help but marvel at how much ... Read More

Fresh from their failures in the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans have created an “advisory council” to help craft their “2024 vision and beyond.” Cue the ... Read More

On the campaign trail back in March 2020, Joe Biden said he viewed himself as merely “a bridge” to the next generation of Democratic leaders, ... Read More

Those of us who love America for its traditional democratic values are exhaling sighs of relief, because – lo and behold – it turns out ... Read More