Two prominent columnists (that I know of) have pronounced the Trump developments of the last week as a unique crossing of the line, as being in the very Constitutional crisis that many have been warning about. It related to Trump’s abuse of power associated with ordering the Justice Department to […]

What are we to make of the fact of the cultural tone of the Russian intervention into the 2016 U.S. presidential election and subsequent, ongoing efforts through social media? For as many of the millions of fake Facebook and other accounts they flooded the U.S. and Western Europe with in […]

While the Mueller team, New York and congressional investigators continue their arduous pursuit of money laundering, blackmail and other ties between Trump and the Russians, on another level there is the in-your-face evidence. Few are willing to look at things like Trump’s move to end the Iran nuclear deal and […]

Last Saturday was a devastating day for legitimate journalism, and thus for democracy. In Afghanistan, nine journalists were killed in a terrorist bombing that the Taliban took credit for and that targeted them. That’s the most journalists to be killed in a single incident since 2001. In the U.S., journalism, […]

The Democratic National Committee’s decision to file a massive civil lawsuit against Trump, the Russians and others involved in the collusion to corrupt the outcome the November 2016 presidential election is an important form of life insurance for the ongoing investigation of all this that will insulate it from desperate […]

I wanted to update you on the recent efforts I have made to address the problem of helicopter noise in Northern Virginia. I appreciated the thoughtful feedback I received from constituents during my Fairlington community forum in January, and I have tried to address those complaints with amendments I introduced […]

For most of us, the only time we focus on oil prices comes when we need to fill our gas tanks. Over the last century, retail gasoline prices in the United States started around 25 cents a gallon many years ago and then became volatile amidst the various wars and […]

It is a sad commentary on the degraded state of political discourse in these times – and likely having more to do with the election of a sociopath as president of the U.S. than any other single factor – that so much of the reaction to James Comey’s scathing book […]

The FBI raid of the office, home and hotel room of Trump’s personal attorney, his go-to fixer, Michael Cohen, this Monday has elevated the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the president’s potential wrongdoing to a whole new level. Now, suddenly, it’s not about Trump’s collusion with the Russians to […]

There is a new revolutionary ferment arising in the nation that is more robust and determined than other electoral surges of recent decades, and the best news is how it is grounded in the same sentiments, centered on the concept of “equality,” that gave rise to the radical Enlightenment the […]