All About Eve: The Message of Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health Org.
• December 6, 2021

  The story of Genesis is eons old and you would think by this time that the statute of limitations had run out on Eve’s theft of the apple and […]

A Not So Surprising Election Outcome Sets Us Up for 2020
• November 7, 2018

It’s over. The hurricane midterm—once in a different political landscape predicted to take on the proportions of a blue wave—has come if not entirely gone. The election—at times feared or […]

Capitol Newspeg: Majority, Diversity, Civility
• October 15, 2018

What would happen if the majority changes in the House? Plus different ways to approach diversity on the Supreme Court and when and where incivility is apparently okay.

Fiola Adds Security Guards
• October 4, 2018

On Sept. 24, Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi were dining at Fiola, owned by Fabio and Maria Trabocchi, when protesters stormed the downtown restaurant.

Political Floodwaters Rise With Kavanaugh Hearing
• October 1, 2018

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh presented himself as both self-confident, and, oddly, as a victim — and, more than that, the subject of persecution by the Democratic Party.  

Senate Sexual Assault Hearing Is No Circus
• September 27, 2018

Unlike many other controversial hearings, the atmosphere surrounding this one among the press and the supporters waiting in line was not to make a rumpus. 

Woodward’s ‘Fear’: A Splash, Then Silence
• September 25, 2018

The combination of book and New York Times editorial was explosive, and, one would think, would provide enough fodder for speculative editorializing and deep-think, deep-state posturing to last the rest of Trump’s term, or at least for a week or two.       

Inside the Kavanaugh Hearing (photos)
• September 6, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh is considerably more conservative than the justice he would replace, Anthony M. Kennedy, who has, since at least 2005, been the swing vote on many of the Supreme Court’s most ideologically charged decisions.