The American Spectator is taking the courageous step of publishing an anonymous essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a former ghostwriter and press secretary in Republican administrations whose identity is known to us and whose…

A friend called and he sounded dejected. He had just done something he’d never done before — he went to a food pantry. My friend is on disability and lives in a subsidized studio apartment. He pays rent, and has…