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Arnold Steinberg
Arnold Steinberg, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is the author of WHIPLASH! From JFK to Donald Trump — A Political Odyssey. A political strategist with wide-ranging expertise, he has been involved in many aspects of public policy, and as a long-time volunteer in criminal justice reform.
by | Jun 8, 2017

All eyes today are on Jim Comey. Living up to President Donald J. Trump’s description as a “grandstander,” the dysfunctional, former FBI Director yesterday previewed his testimony to draw higher ratings. Comey is a performer who wants a multi-day show….

by | May 22, 2017

“Prior commitment,” I replied politely, but disingenuously. Given my questions about justice in Saudi Arabia, the aide to the Governor of Riyadh had invited me to a beheading “Friday at noon” at what my American embassy escort called “chop chop…

by | May 15, 2017

“It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election,” FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee less than two weeks ago. Hearing Comey supercilious testimony, made me, well, mildly…

by | May 10, 2017

Nearly a century and a quarter ago, several dozen Yiddish-speaking socialists published in New York City on April 22, 1897 the first issue of Forverts, the name inspired by Vorwarts, the house organ of the German socialist party. Over the…

by | Apr 16, 2017

“Bomb the hell out of ISIS. Another promise kept.” — @Donald JTrumpJr Green Beret Mark de Alencar, 37, had a wife and five children. Freedom fighter Alencar, of blessed memory, died from combat wounds sustained in Nangarha Province in eastern…

by | Apr 10, 2017

“I really believe that we should have and still should take out Assad’s airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop Sarin gas on them,” proclaimed Hillary Clinton on Thursday, in her…

by | Mar 24, 2017

Long ago and barely 20 years old, I was a dinner guest at the Georgetown home of Katharine Graham. She had become publisher of the Washington Post five years earlier, when her predecessor (and husband) committed suicide. Not to despair:…

by | Mar 20, 2017

This is not about my hometown newspaper but about America. The Los Angeles Times is a metaphor for the hysterical reaction to the proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Friday’s front page included a photo of…

by | Mar 16, 2017

“They may have been phony in the past but they are real now.” — Sean Spicer, March 10 “This is going to be a new era for American jobs and job creation,” President Donald Trump proclaimed Wednesday in a speech…

by | Feb 22, 2017

Strange, but in the final editing of my book, which is much concerned with the American conservative movement, I cannot find a single mention of the “alt-right.” I don’t know what the alt-right is, or anyone in it. Perhaps it…

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