Tag : politics

Last week Marco Rubio and Joe Manchin teamed up to kill people and score points. Hooray for bipartisanship! | Opinion | Orlando

I take one week away from the internet, and suddenly Russia is on the verge of invading Ukraine, Donald Trump…

2 years ago

Neither of Biden’s Afghanistan options were good: either make good on Trump’s deal or recommit to a quagmire | Columns | Orlando

For all the talk of Saigon, I think the Bay of Pigs serves as a better political analogy for what’s…

3 years ago

The Afghan War was bipartisan, multi-decade, multi-trillion-dollar misadventure doomed almost from the start | Columns | Orlando

On Nov. 2, 2001, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, one of the world’s most influential columnists, wrote, “A month…

3 years ago

To unfuck the planet’s future, America will need to fix its failing democracy | Columns | Orlando

The 3,949-page report the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released on Aug. 9 leaves little room for optimism: Things are…

3 years ago

The infrastructure bill that finally passed sacrificed an awful lot for the sake of bipartisan aesthetics | Columns | Orlando

We have a deal!  Unless something goes pear-shaped.  Unless House Democrats remember that they, too, were elected to play a…

3 years ago

Conservatives now use the label ‘critical race theory’ to describe any conversation about race that makes them uncomfortable | Columns | Orlando

If covering the Trump administration was like drinking water from a fire hydrant, analyzing the Biden era has been like…

3 years ago

Here are 10 questions for the Biden presidency. The answers will define what kind of year 2021 will be, for better or worse | Columns | Orlando

With the annus horribilis 2020 finally in the rearview, we cast our gaze forward, if not to a sunnier future…

3 years ago

2020 proved beyond a doubt that there’s no price to pay for shameless behavior in America | Columns | Orlando

If you’d told me on Jan. 1, 2020, that Donald Trump would lose, I’d have been relieved. If you’d told…

3 years ago