John L. Micek

Billionaire space cowboys Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have rightfully been taking some flack for sub-orbital jaunts earlier this month that garnered plenty of headlines ... Read More

It was hard to miss the challenge that President Joe Biden posed to Americans as he burned through a fiery speech at the National Constitution ... Read More

When Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ran his veto pen across a Republican-authored rewrite of state election law last week that included new voter identification requirements ... Read More

Tina Ford understands the toll of gun violence like few of us ever will. She lives with it every day. In April 2019, her, son, ... Read More

So just how desperate are some Republicans to deny the reality of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol? Desperate enough that 21 of ... Read More

As a Democrat from a staunchly Republican state, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is a vanishing breed, not only in contemporary American politics, but ... Read More

Everyone’s complaining about Congress, but if you want to track the real, festering growth of Trumpism and its corrosive effect on our politics, you’re better ... Read More

Who knew that America was filled with so many amateur social studies teachers? Whenever I write about Republican-led efforts to sharply curtail voting rights (which ... Read More

Having tired of the culture wars, Republicans have returned to the familiar and comforting battlefield of the class wars. The GOP is seizing on disappointing ... Read More

By John Micek In three decades in the news business, most of them spent covering government and politics, I've been to more than my share of ... Read More