Body Politic
The Scary, Narrow Minded, Out of Touch Party for Stuffy Old Men
The Republican Party, firmly fixed in an echo chamber where dissent is anathema, is content with blaming the messaging rather than the message.
Ten Years Later
By the time U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, children old enough to be in high school will have never known a day when their country was not at war. On the other side of the world, a whole generation of Afghani and Iraqi children, by sheer accident of birth, cannot forget a scarred legacy—of the relentless explosions around them, the menacing whine of deadly jets above them, and the graves of their loved ones below them.
Masters of the Universe
Thankfully, McCoy is a frightful fiction—our country’s laws prevent such impertinence. “The United States maintains one of the strongest and most effective anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regimes of the world,” David S. Cohen of the Treasury Department assured the nation.
The Paradoxical President
At the outset of his first term, an overcautious Obama squandered considerable political capital on tepid stimulus and healthcare bills due to a baffling inability to command the bully pulpit. Mired in the minefields of increasingly radicalized Republican obstinacy, the administration’s myriad concessions and omissions rightly disheartened the president’s supporters.
