John L. Micek

So here’s another reason why it’s important to pay attention in what happens in your state capital. Last week, two Pennsylvania state lawmakers – both ... Read More

Of course, it had to happen. The news this week that President Donald Trump's handlers may have digitally altered his photographs to make him appear not ... Read More

If you passed Max Acuna on the street or on your way to work, or any one of those hundreds of places where people cross ... Read More

WASHINGTON - It was a perfect post-Christmas day, as I watched tourists move in concentric circles around the Jefferson Memorial at the far edge of ... Read More

Somewhere, Dorothy Parker is smiling. In one withering remark on Tuesday, once (and now increasingly likely future) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Donald Trump the most ... Read More

What got into Lindsey Graham? Maybe it was the wave of nostalgia for an old school Washington brought on by the funeral of former President George ... Read More

HARRISBURG, Pa. - John E. Jones III doesn't look or sound much like a rebel. Like a lot of federal judges, he's given to sober suits, ... Read More

A friend who works in campaigns recently joked that there ought to be a mandatory, two-week respite from any kind of political talk immediately after ... Read More

So what do Crystal City, Va., and Long Island City, N.Y., have that your city or state doesn't? Well, everything, as it turns out. Or at least ... Read More

On Sunday afternoons in the late 1970s and early 1980s, long after 11 a.m. mass had finished, my cousin and I would head down the ... Read More