Hunter Biden has been indicted in Los Angeles on nine counts of tax charges and faces prison terms of up to 17 years. These are in addition to gun charges filed earlier in Delaware. It is interesting to contrast his…
It’s been 50 years since the 18½ minute gap was discovered in the White House tape of June 20, 1972, and we are no closer to resolving its origins than we were during the Watergate scandal. To put it into…
The 50th Anniversary of the Saturday Night Massacre passed last month, with C-SPAN’s American History TV hosting a panel featuring prominent figures from that era, all happily reminiscing how the event “set off a chain of political and legal events…
Without popular support, no democracy can win a war, even if its armed forces are stronger. Vietnam taught this lesson. Though American arms suffered many casualties, and some battles were touch and go, in the end, our forces were unbeaten….
It’s hardly a surprise that the corporate media have rushed to the defense of President Biden pursuant to the impeachment inquiry announced last week by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. More surprising is the absurdity of the arguments they offer on…
Helen Mirren does it again. The British Meryl Streep has confirmed the stunning breadth of her dramatic range. Among dozens of memorable roles, the 78-year-old actress has portrayed Queen Elizabeth II, Maria Altmann — the owner of painter Gustav Klimt’s…
The movement toward prosecuting people (i.e., politicians) and not crimes did not start with the current onslaught against former President Donald Trump. In the modern era, it stretches back to Robert Kennedy’s all-out effort to destroy Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa….
As some of you know, I had a famous father, the economist, wit, and writer, Herbert Stein. I write about him a great deal, especially in these inflationary times, I write about his epigram: “If something cannot go on forever,…
I first met Aram Bakshian in the fall of 1961. We were both Washingtonians. He was a senior at Woodward Prep, a Washington day school about one block west of the White House. I was a senior at a simply…
