The Republican Party’s carnival of egos
Hey, America: Remember when Rick Perry was still in the presidential race? Given the various traumas this primary season has heaped upon the national psyche, it might seem like that...
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Are women warriors or weaklings?
Last Saturday's GOP debate was disastrous for many reasons — Ben Carson's awkward refusal to step on stage, Marco Rubio's deer-in-the-headlights moment and the free pass granted to Donald Trump...
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and feminist fits
After months of polls, pontification and fevered speculation, the Iowa caucuses — and with them, the first official votes of the 2016 presidential primary — are finally in America's taillights....
America’s daddy issues
Here in America, as in much of the Western world, social conservatism is terribly uncool. No, it's worse than that: It's socially toxic. Traditionalists, we are told, are stiffs, fools,...
Yes, this campaign can get even more spectacular
On Tuesday, in a spectacle rivaling a Greek tragedy at a demolition derby, Alaskan political celebrity Sarah Palin endorsed New York political celebrity and Republican front-runner Donald Trump, while simultaneously...
Republicans, don’t buy the Obama/Trump vision
Insanity, as the well-worn aphorism goes, consists of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This bit of wisdom has become such a cliche that...
Obama’s continuing theater of the absurd
In "Superfudge," Judy Blume's well-loved and best-selling children's book from 1980, the title character — Farley Drexel Hatcher, a wildly precocious and rambunctious 4-year-old who goes by the nickname "Fudge"...
When everyone wants to be president
I don't want to offend the 1,436 individuals who are running for president right now, but I have to be honest: I've long suspected that people who run for president...
What Obama and other elites just don’t get
You've got to hand it to Donald Trump: The man knows how to command attention. Earlier this week, just as the country sat on the verge of a real and...
Hillary Clinton’s ’44 Boys’ ad shows her laughable gender obsession
This week, White House aspirant Hillary Clinton released a new campaign ad featuring a bevy of cute little girls. The title of the ad refers to the presidency, and it...