Dick Polman

Mark Twain once said, “The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy.” If only he were ...

It’s a federal holiday and I’m on the move, so I’ll just share some new stats. Gallup has surveyed our less than ...

Let’s start with the FBI’s chilling ...

It was sadly surreal last night to leave a Los Angeles screening of “La La Land” — a rhapsodic dreamscape about the dance o ...

To set the stage for Mary the rebel Rockette, I first need to quote what I wrote here ...

You never hear the term “black liar” anymore. I think it died in the 19th century, which is a shame, because it’d be a kick to ...

In case you’re under the mistaken impression that the wounds of election ’16 are healing, yesterday’s tempestuous Tweet ...

This is what happens when you give a toddler the power of life and death: The United States must gr ...

Journey with me now to the wilds of Trumplandia, where math and logic are fascinatingly fungible. Leading citizens of Trumplandia ...

This is the way democracy ends. To quote the poet T. S. Eliot: “not with a bang, but a whimper.” Indeed, even though I ...

Good grief, Bill Clinton is gabbing again. He riffed yesterday about Hillary’s loss: “We had the Russians and the FBI, and sh ...

In the good ole days when our democratic norms were intact, back when it was inconceivable that a reckless demagogue could ascend to the ...