The next election is not an existential event for the United States. Neither the one after that, nor the one after that. But that won’t stop American politicians from saying otherwise, or fear-ridden voters from believing them. For the past decade, our politics has been in the grip of a disease I call “The End […]
There was a while not long ago when boats came from Venezuela were not bombed. That was when the deceased Venezuelan strong man and populist Hugo Chavez allocated the shipping of millions of liters of a discount in the house to needy families in Boston and elsewhere. It was a humanitarian and political movement by […]
The occurrence of the Trump administration against pharmaceutical advertisements is a welcome step in reducing the influence of Big Pharma on conversations between patients and their doctors. Americans are among the few people in the world who have been bombed with advertisements for medicines that most of us do not need-New Zealand is the only […]
Gavin Newsom government is conducting a media war against President Donald Trump, especially with Uber-Snarky Social Media messages, while promoting a voting aimed at increasing the conference chairs of Democrats, portraying as a way to bump Trump’s lust for power. Newsom clearly seeks recognition as the most effective political enemy of Trump, political experts from […]
It was perhaps the busiest Friday afternoon ever in Francis X. Bellotti Courthouse in Quincy – especially in August. The hacks could not even take an early slide to the Cape, they were so nervous and discombobulated. The police had brought in a millionaire perp and perhaps for the first time ever in Norfolk County, […]
Josh Kraft should go to Uganda. There he was able to meet the New York City in Zohran Mamdani in Kampala, the capital, and find out how he can primarily win a mayors. Not a primary in Kampala, the capital, where Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago – a kind of Eric Adams from Uganda – is […]
In 2023, Minnesota adopted the most extensively paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law in the country. From January 1, 2026, almost all employees are eligible for a maximum of 20 weeks of partially paid leave each year-with wage replacement rates of up to 90% for employees with a lower income. The benefit is financed […]
Communication experts suggest that the best way to get a conversation with someone with whom you disagree is to ask them to talk about themselves. Unfortunately I discovered that he asked: “What the hell is you wrong with you ??!?” Is really not a good way to start a productive conversation. But I am not […]
She rides three buses from her Panorama City house to her job as a caretaker for an 83-year-old Sherman Oaks woman with dementia, and lately she is worried about taking federal agents. When I asked what she will do when she is deported, B., who is 60 and asked me to keep her name behind, […]
In 2022, after I wrote a column with the argument that Joe Biden was too old to run for re -election, I had a number of conversations and at least one cable TV debate with Democrats who thought I was wrong. I cannot remember that there was a lot of difference between what these Democrats […]