President Donald Trump shows off his Dolly Parton-inspired coat of many colors. Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Category: Opinion
Last Thursday, a federal judge in Massachusetts put her foot down and stopped Trump’s Republican toadies on the Postal Board of Governors from seizing control of your mail-in ballot this fall. She noted that neither the Constitution nor Congress gives him or them that power and, besides that, there’…
While every week under the Trump regime feels like a test of our collective endurance, this past week also broke our hearts with the double-whammy losses of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry within 24 hours. GenX is having a particularly difficult time, because we literally grew up with both of them before…
Construction on Donald Trump’s aloof, monarchical, for-rich-whites-only 90,000-square-foot ballroom can proceed, thanks to an aloof, monarchical, and for-rich-whites-only Supreme Court.What the Supreme Court handed down today isn’t a ruling about a simple, easy-to-explain throwback to the Gilded Age…
Our military has never seemed weaker on the global stage thanks to Cadet Bones Spurs’ regime carrying out Project 2025’s planned changes to the U.S. military. Aside from renaming the Defense Department to the Department of War during peacetime, the other shredding of our esteemed military being carr…
I had reservations about writing this column because Dolly Parton doesn’t deserve to be in the same piece as Donald Trump, let alone the same sentence.She was famously non-political, and I think that’s one thing Americans of all stripes admired about her. And in her own way, she was vocal about the …
Aug. 28 marks the 11th anniversary of Donald Trump blocking me on Twitter. This means he’s been violating my First Amendment rights for most of the last decade, minus the glorious four-year respite that was the Biden-Harris administration. It also means he’s a giant c…
Earlier this year, an apparently highly ambitious Florida state Rep. named Meg Weinberger, a Republican from Palm Beach Gardens, introduced a Florida measure to rename Palm Beach International Airport to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport. Not to be outdone in the race to kiss Trump…
“Oh, Canada!””Oh, God!” He really is doing it; it looks like he is actually doing it. President Donald Trump has now managed to infuriate our neighbors in the Great White North to a degree once thought impossible, bringing a modern “Western War” with Canada into play. Not one with guns; wars against…
I have rarely, if ever, seen the kind of outpouring of praise and adoration as that for Dolly Parton upon news of her death on Tuesday at 80. And it’s understandable. On every conceivable measure of humanity – talent, beauty, intelligence, warmth, wit, grace, generosity, decency, compassion, courage…