Dick Polman
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Brilliant thinking: Vote Trump, lose health coverage
Winston Churchill once said, presumably half in jest, that “the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with ...
9 years ago
House Democrats should (but probably won’t) dump Nancy Pelosi
If Democrats truly want to reboot their battered brand, they need to break with the past. They could start by cleaning House and dumping ...
9 years ago
The sore winner baselessly slimes the electoral process
We can’t even make it through a holiday weekend without new missives from the tweeting toddler. Rich Galen, the longtime Rep ...
9 years ago
Farewell to Fidel, with open eyes
When I heard about Fidel Castro’s death, I joked that the 1961 CIA had finally gotten the guy’s beard to fall out. But ...
9 years ago
Abe Lincoln’s Thanksgiving cheer
This Thanksgiving doesn’t feel particularly festive, not after electing a president who lost by more than ...
9 years ago
Trump plays Emily Litella: ‘Never mind!’
Donald Trump announced yesterday that, nah, he doesn’t wanna put Hillary Clinton in jail after all: “It’s not something ...
9 years ago
What the Italians can teach us about Trump
It’s time for a little deja vu. A flamboyant demagogic mogul with no governing experience had just been elected to ...
9 years ago
Welcome to the era of presidential profiteering
Sixty days before the inauguration‚ henceforth to be known as Enthronement Day — the craven corruption has already commenced. ...
9 years ago
Fake news and the epidemic of willful ignorance
I’ll start today with a story about Taylor Swift. It’s actually a non-story, but that’ ...
9 years ago
Trump inhabits the swamp he vowed to drain
Future historians will study the ’16 election and marvel at the fact that a minority of voters — currently a second-place 46.8 pe ...
9 years ago
Beyond the Beltway, Democrats are even worse off
We’re all so fixated on what’s happening right now in Washington – where Team Trump, shocked by its own victory, is scr ...
9 years ago
Say hello to Trump’s in-house propagandist
It’s safe to say that nobody ever imagined a scenario where Hillary Clinton would win the popular vote by roughly one million peopl ...
9 years ago