Tag: politics

I can remember the restless election night in 2016 when I learned, at The Triangle offices, that Donald Trump would become the 45th president of…

Donald J. Trump is now the fourth of our presidents to face impeachment. Two of them, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, actually were impeached, although…

Something is happening that’s never happened before: the world’s two oldest democracies, Britain and the United States, are simultaneously experiencing constitutional crises they haven’t faced…

Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second as farce. Of course, that doesn’t preclude tragedy following the…

The Mueller hearings have come and gone, leaving us predictably no closer to a resolution of our constitutional crisis and shorn of any remaining illusion…

Drexel University finds itself smack in the middle of the Hahnemann Hospital closing, a debacle that has gained national attention, including that of presidential candidate…

Last week, after two years as Special Counsel to the Justice Department’s investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and related matters, and…

Two elements of life and culture that seem to have recurring roles in my life are politics and music. These two worlds could not be…

As I’ve said before, I believe that when a president commits impeachable offenses on a regular basis, there is a Constitutional duty to call him…

The President and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, have had a famously turbulent relationship. Last week, however, things came to a boil. Pelosi…