The “partisan split” of Americans showed up in a big way at Fourth of July celebrations and backyard barbecues last week, but the media, while noting or even complaining about it, rarely mentions exactly why it’s happening.A few weeks ago, Louise and I were having coffee with an old friend who’s kno…
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My name is Ray, and I’m still an Amazon user.Whenever I need anything, I automatically order it on Amazon Prime and it’s magically at my doorstep the next day. Or within a few hours. Sometimes, it arrives so quickly I swear they’re reading my mind and that I only thought about ordering it.I’m so laz…
First, full disclosure: I’m not a soccer fan. I’m a football fan, and a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan. So, having said that, let’s start with a hypothetical.Say the Steelers are heading into a playoff game and their best defensive player just got suspended for a hit the league ruled illegal.Team o…
After progressives, including self-described Democratic Socialists, won numerous primary victories in New York and elsewhere, President Donald Trump launched a whopper of a lie, even by his crazed standards. He declared that the “communist” Democratic Socialists are “the biggest threat to our nation…
I’ve never been much of a gambler. I think it’s a waste of time, and I just don’t enjoy it. Money has never gotten my pulse up. And if I’m honest, the times I’ve proverbially thrown the dice, I’ve always lost.Every time I’ve sat down at a table telling myself this is the round I get ahead, I’ve walk…
MAGA is raging about Trump “losing” after the Supreme Court voted to strike down his racist and xenophobic birthright citizenship ban. They’re also big mad at Melania Trump for not hating transgender women nearly as much as they do. The Red Hat Death Squad is so in love with their hate, and they hat…
Hundreds of people died last month across Europe from the heat; they’re a symptom of a larger problem that governments around the world have failed to address — that goes far beyond simply global warming — and that the Trump regime is making far worse.Its foundation is one of the most troubling aspe…
Hooray, we’re free! Screw you, England!Now what?When Benjamin Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention and said we’d been given “a republic, if you can keep it,” is there any doubt he was talking about 2026 America?Taking stock of where we are—on our nation’s 250th birthday—we’re not exac…
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
America turns 250 this year. If you were around for the bicentennial in 1976 you probably remember it like I do. I was an 11 year-old preteen obsessed with presidents but not yet old enough to understand the experiment called democracy I was celebrating.I remember red, white and blue everywhere. In …