Can Donald Trump be stopped? Will the GOP’s mega-donors garner enough money and airtime to end Trump’s appeal to evangelical and blue-collar voters? Trump proved he could beat opponents as different as Kasich and Cruz in places as different as Mississippi and Michigan. But that hasn’t stopped party leaders from raising money to try and […]

The FBI, trying to force Apple to break into its own protected software, wants the public to ignore its own failings and misstatements. There’s much more than anti-terrorism involved in the attempt to crack a cellphone. After the December 2015 attack in San Bernardino, California, the two terrorists were quickly found and killed. One of […]

She is going to say he is too unreliable (the way Barry Goldwater was in 1964). That he is too uninformed (the way Ronald Reagan was in 1980). That he is out of touch (the way George H.W. Bush was in 1992). That he is too much of a plutocrat (the way Mitt Romney was […]

“People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines. … Such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, […]

So much for the party elites. So much for the super PACs. So much for the pollsters. So much for (many in) the media. Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’ victories on Tuesday demonstrate dramatically how angry many voters are, and how dangerous it would be to try to thwart their candidates in the name of […]