Washington In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a conference call on COVID-19 and warned, as the New York Times reported, that 160 million to 214 million Americans could become infected, and 200,000 to 1.7 million might…
Washington In 2020, people talk about “two Americas.” During the coronavirus outbreak, there is one America, a sheltered America, with people who — like me — can work at home. And another America, an edgier America, that stands to be…
Washington Can science lead to dumb panic? It’s a question I’ve been asking as the stock market cannibalized itself in response to the coronavirus outbreak, academia shuttered classrooms, and other interests did their utmost to convince their customers that they…
Washington Unlike President Donald Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tends to be precise in his language. So when Schumer stood before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday and called out two justices by threatening they would “pay a price”…
Washington In 2010, when Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his aides were quoted in a Rolling Stone piece belittling top officials in President Barack Obama’s administration, including Vice President Joe Biden, the New York Times went into high dudgeon. A Grey…
For decades, a small cadre of reformers pushed whichever president occupied the Oval Office to use his pardon power more frequently and put a lid on draconian federal sentences that put low-level and midlevel offenders away for decades, even life….
Washington President Donald Trump is turning his base into hardcore civil libertarians and turning the left into brutal authoritarians. Although, to be fair, he’s not doing it alone. Overzealous federal prosecutors are the big drivers. Exhibit A: Roger Stone, the…
Two words leaped to mind just before Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, announced that he would vote to convict President Donald Trump on one article of impeachment: frog’s legs. Frog’s legs were on the menu as then-president-elect and Romney dined at…
Washington Lev Parnas, the Ukrainian-born American who has photos and video to prove that he knows President Donald Trump, showed up outside the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday. Parnas couldn’t get into the chamber because the indicted associate of Rudy…