When Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discuss Medicare-for-All, it reminds me of the Dire Straits tune, “Money for Nothing.” A couple of guys working in Best Buy, or maybe Costco, talk as if the illusory world of an MTV video…
While Americans enjoy the beach, the geostrategic world spins crazily on its increasingly wobbly axis. The Dog Days of Summer offer space to survey a number of pressing concerns and try to see where we stand and better anticipate where…
When Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis suggested that “this girl Ocasio-Cortez” is a symptom of Democratic disarray, the self-styled “girl from the Bronx” (who actually grew up in Westchester County) retorted with a tweet wherein she claimed: “I am a Puerto…
Unemployment sinks below four percent, some anticipate gross domestic product growth to approach five percent for the second quarter, and the Dow enjoys an addition of more than 5,000 points since Donald Trump’s inauguration. But bashing capitalism strangely remains in…
One of the really cool things about democracy is that voters tend to get what they want — which, um, can turn out to be one of the really uncool things about democracy. A thing of real terror, if you…
Since her surprise primary victory over 10-term Congressman Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th District, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been promoted by the legacy media as the prototype of a new generation of young progressives destined to replace the leadership of…
