Democracy is more than just elections. The Soviet Union had elections. Joseph Stalin usually received 98 or 99% of the vote. The Sovie...

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Watching TV coverage of President Trump's first foreign trip, I was reminded of Casey Stengel's question during his first season wit...

Gobsmacked. There's no other word to describe my reaction to Trump's latest assertion of the power to disclose intelligence informat...

I'm not a great admirer of FBI Director Comey. I think he acted wrongly on the Clinton e-mail matter. But I don't think those action...

I certainly breathed a sigh of relief at the outcome of the French election for president. I only regret that I don't have a tricolor ...

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It is becoming pretty clear that the most urgent question facing today's Europe is the German question. Paul Krugman sees Germany as k...

A lot of nonsense has been promulgated by Oriental Town Government about why I filed suit against the Town over closing of Avenue A and Sout...