Dick Polman

We all know that the ’16 campaign will cost way more money than ever before – $10 billion is the latest head-spinning estimat ...

It’s a shame that historian Richard Hofstadter, author of The Paranoid Style in American Politics, isn’t here to wit ...

Someone should do a psychological study of the deluded souls who think they belong in the Oval Office. This week alone, we have th ...

  Chris Christie’s presidential dreams died on Friday. Now that two former senior aides have been ...

Electing judges is moronic. You need to know how I feel before you read on. Putting judges on the ballot, compelling them to campa ...

Presidential candidates have begun to weigh in on Baltimore, and what’s most striking is the substance chasm that separates Hillary ...

Do the climate change deniers seem more ridiculous than ever? Gee, I dunno, is the pope Catholic?Actually, Pope Francis himself is making ...

Since the dawn of the Reagan era, the GOP coalition has been a marriage of convenience between culture and commerce. The religious right ...

On the sidewalk fronting the U. S. Supreme Court, people have been camping out for days – in the hopes of snagging seats for Tuesda ...

As I read the new stories about the Clinton Foundation, I’m reminded of what deputy marshal Tommy Lee Jones drawled when he saw the ...

We shouldn’t let Earth Day pass us by without talking a bit about Bob Inglis. You’ve probably never heard of Inglis ...

Sometimes what’s newsworthy is not what politicians say, but what they don’t say. Like last weekend, when 19 ...