To date, there are at least 10 Republican Davids who have announced that they are running for president . . .
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6/15/23
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It’s said that every election has consequences. True enough. And some elections also carry a message. While the consequences of last week’s elections . . .
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11/16/17
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Last August I wrote a column about the campaign for the White House and the efforts of Donald J. Trump to win his party’s nomination. Knowing that we’re living in uncertain times, I did not dare to predict that he wouldn’t get the Republican Party nomination. As I am frequently wrong, according to my wife . . .
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7/27/16
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We all have our individual tipping points. Call it the moment when you start screaming at the TV. I began to crack around the edges last week . . .
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5/5/16
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I’m no Lady Gaga, but I felt like bursting into “The Star-Spangled Banner” as I watched the Democratic debate last Thursday night. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were going at it: strong, smart, tough and aggressive.
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2/19/16
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The opening conversation in last Saturday’s Republican debate in South Carolina focused on an unexpected topic — the death of legendary Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. I knew Scalia . . .
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2/19/16
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The Iowa caucuses are less than a month away, and in the most recent polls . . .
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1/8/16
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Five years ago, just before the 2010 midterm elections, I leapt at what I thought was a one-time opportunity to compare the political landscape to a mean-spirited Halloween trick. Rage was all the rage that season . . .
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10/22/15
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I believe that the television remote control is one of mankind’s greatest inventions since the electric light bulb. It is the only instrument I know of . . .
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7/8/15
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We New Yorkers are enduring one of the bitterest winters in the last 25 years. Gasoline prices may be low . . .
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3/4/15
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