Dick Polman

When Senate Republicans decided last year to ditch their constitutional duty – by stiffing President Obama’s eminently qualif ...

Both of these things are true: The tinpot despot was well within his rights to fire the acting Attorney General — but the acting Attorn ...

The good news is that Donald Trump is already under seige from a nonpartisan citizen backlash — liberals and conservatives, Democr ...

I assume you’re familiar with Faust, the 16th-century character of German legend who sold his soul and his moral integrity to the D ...

The Trumpster fire is raging on so many fronts that it’s virtually impossible to parse every outburst of dangerous ignorance. But s ...

Check out the 25th Constitutional Amendment. A vice president, working with a “majority of either the principle officers of the exe ...

For the millions who flooded the streets on Saturday, the marches were a cathartic opportunity to blow off steam and send a message to Tr ...

Comrade Kellyannesky (R-Kremlin) has decreed that “alternative facts” equal empirical facts. Excellent. When I ventured outdo ...

Two thousand years ago, in Greece, the biographer Plutarch assessed the legacy of Cleon, an infamous Athenian demagogue who wreaked great ...

  There is a disturbance in the force. Today’s column will appear in mid-afternoon, after I’ve fully parsed the L ...

For those of us in the American majority — the 53.9 percent of voters who refused to be fooled by Donald Trump’s serial cons — ...

As an unpopular charlatan prepares to place his hand on a bible (of all things) with the ...