Jon Sinton

Let’s begin by agreeing that far-left Democrats have a Hamas problem, and far-right Republicans have a Nazi problem.

Saturday is the second No Kings march. The first one brought millions and millions of American patriots out to the streets in towns large and small. There are reasons to think this one will be bigger. Still, there are naysayers. They say this isn’t the Sixties. They say protest music and marching in the street is a fool’s errand. A waste of time and energy. I disagree.

Is anyone else perplexed by the lemmings following each other off the cliff of Trump Loyalty? Personally, I find it amazing that his sycophants can’t see the reality of Marjorie Taylor Green, Pam Bondi, and the others, too numerous to mention here—I only have 800 words to work with—who have ruined themselves on this one-way street.

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had a roadmap to what he calls “illiberal democracy.” The Trump administration has followed it closely. They’ve tried to change the rules surrounding the popular vote by making it harder to vote by mail, or even register if you’re unlikely to vote their way. Orban gerrymandered, just as Trump tried to do this winter, realigning voting districts in his favor. Both have used their legislative majorities to tamp down oversight and seat friendly judges. What media their rich friends can’t buy, they try to control with the power of the state. They both talk to the press, but only to those who curry favor with them.

President Trump is famous for exaggerations bordering on lies, and lies based on exaggerations. He says exaggeration is his style as a real estate developer, which is kind of like

I never know whether to be surprised or upset when people discover that I’m not a one dimensional monolith of liberal thought. Often, we are so clad in our political

This week, as we celebrate the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, you can go anywhere to read the many hyperbolic clichés extolling our

I have to admit, I had my doubts. I couldn’t find the spirit that usually inhabits me on the Fourth. Independence Day is my Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Thanksgiving

You’re reading a lot of highly polemic obituaries for Lindsey Graham. He was polarizing: Senator Graham was either a horrible person, or he was a great person. There are enough

When Chief Justice John Roberts was a cub lawyer in the Reagan and H.W. Bush White Houses, he argued for the “unitary executive.” He bided his time, and in