Email scandal just latest blip for drama junkie Clinton
I like Bill and Hillary Clinton, but they don't make it easy. For more than a quarter-century I have watched them slip in and out of scandals, most of which...
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‘Hamilton’ is even better than its hype
When singer-writer-rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda announced at a White House event five years ago that he was working on "a hip-hop album about somebody who I think embodies hip-hop — Treasury...
Jesse Williams missed moment to speak truth to black power too
Since I'm not a regular viewer of "Grey's Anatomy," I didn't know who the actor Jesse Williams was until his eloquent rants about the state of race in America popped...
Brexit and the rising shades of Trumpism
Many people see striking similarities between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union. One of those people is Donald Trump. The presumptive Republican...
If Trump’s campaign were a business, it would be teetering on bankruptcy
Donald Trump's firing of his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski sounds like a big deal, until you realize how small a Trump campaign there is to manage. Late Monday, hours after...
Double jeopardy? Gay Muslims in America
One day on a golf course with actor-comedian Jack Benny in the late 1950s, song-and-dance man Sammy Davis Jr. was asked what his handicap was. "Talk about handicap," said Davis,...
Donald Trump loves attention but hates scrutiny
As a kid, I had high hopes. "I don't want to be a millionaire," said my favorite T-shirt. "I just want to live like one." That's my impression of autocrat-in-progress...
It’s on! Clinton, Trump go tweet-to-tweet
As presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump got into a Twitter fight with newly crowned presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, any hope for reasoned discourse in campaign 2016 seemed to fly...
Why Muhammad Ali still matters
Of all the riveting stories that made up Muhammad Ali's amazing and controversial life, the most intriguing to me is how well he performed despite testing poorly in school. Conventional...
What’s in a team’s name? How about a slur?
Well, that's a relief. It turns out that Native American Indians are not offended by the name of Washington's football team after all. You know, the Redskins. A new Washington...