13.7 C
Los Angeles
Monday, December 23, 2024

Opinion

Opinion | The Sins of the Educated Class

When I was young, I was a man on the left. In the early 1980s, I used to go to the library and...

Opinion | The Beauty of Embracing Aging

As Evelyn Couch said to Ninny Threadgoode in Fannie Flagg’s “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe”: “I’m too young to be...

Opinion | It’s Crazy to Think Trump Wants to Be a Felon

The myth of Donald Trump is that he is immune to scandal — that there’s nothing he could say or do that would...

Opinion | How a Coterie of Rappers Became Trump Evangelists

One oddity of Donald Trump’s Bronx rally last week was when the former president invited two rappers — Michael Williams, who performs as...

Opinion | The Alito Family’s ‘Appeal to Heaven’

There is no real antecedent in American history to the situation surrounding Justice Samuel Alito.To recap, we learned last week that in the...

Opinion | Trump’s Taste for Tyranny Finds a Target

Among the worst episodes in American history are those moments when the federal government deploys the full weight of its power against the...

Opinion | We Haven’t Hit Peak Populism Yet

We used to have long debates about American exceptionalism, about whether this country was an outlier among nations, and I always thought the...

Opinion | Justice Alito Is a True Believer

In a large part of American political discourse, overt cynicism is the currency of sophistication. It is a sign of political savviness, even...

Opinion | The Underappreciated Genius of ‘Planet of the Apes’

There is no franchise in Hollywood filmmaking that is as consistently good, and as consistently interesting, as “Planet of the Apes.”I feel very...

Opinion | When ‘Stop the Steal’ Becomes Your Motto

There is a good chance that Donald Trump’s polling lead in the 2024 presidential election is more fragile than it looks.The most immediate...

Opinion | The Authoritarians Have the Momentum

The central struggle in the world right now is between liberalism and authoritarianism. It’s between those of us who believe in democratic values...

Opinion | Trump Is Still at War With the Constitution

At a rally in Wildwood, N.J., on Saturday, Donald Trump said that if he is re-elected, he will “immediately deport” any campus protesters...

Opinion | Are We Really Going to Let Trump Come Back to Fail Again?

For many millions of Americans, time seemed to move differently under President Donald Trump.There was no breathing room — no calm in the...

Opinion | What Donald Trump Would Do for $1 Billion

Not to spend too much time writing about Donald Trump this week, but I was struck by this report in The Washington Post...

- A word from our sponsors -

spot_img

Follow us

HomeOpinion