Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon is scheduled to be released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

When the Soviet Union collapsed on Christmas Day, 1991, a wave of euphoria washed over the West. Barely two years had elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and suddenly, the Cold War was over. The decadeslong nuclear stand-off between the superpowers ended, in the immortal words of the poet T.S. Eliot, “not with […]

In his books, The True and Only Heaven and The Revolt of the Elites, historian Christopher Lasch celebrated what he called “the spiritual discipline against resentment.” Despite the fact that “the world was not made for our convenience” and that there is plenty of pain and suffering, there is also what Lasch calls “the goodness […]

Former President Obama condemned comments made about Puerto Rico during former President Trump's rally on Sunday, labeling the remarks "the most racist, sexist, bigoted stereotypes." "We saw it last night… The man holds a big rally at Madison Square Garden, and the warm-up speakers were saying the most, were-were trotting out and peddling the most...

For those of us whose memories of Reagan remain vivid, there is no doubt what he would do in this election. 

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville cautioned that comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's jokes about Puerto Rico at former President Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden is going to cost the GOP nominee votes in key battleground states. "Trump is a giant loser," Carville said Monday night in an interview on MSNBC's "The Beat." "The sooner people acknowledge...

Upon hearing that both the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post would refrain from endorsing a presidential candidate this year, one thought popped up in my mind: What took them so long?  

GOP commentator Ryan Girdusky has been banned from CNN after he made offensive comments Monday toward Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan, seemingly referencing his ethnicity. "I hope your beeper doesn't go off," Girdusky told Hasan, an apparent reference the pager bomb detonations earlier this year that resulted in several deaths and thousands of injuries in Lebanon....

In a matter of years, we went from a presidential candidate raising in the tens of millions to more than hundreds of millions for an election.

Steve Bannon was released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Bannon’s exit from a Connecticut prison comes exactly one week from Election Day, where his former boss, former President Trump, is neck-and-neck with his Democratic opponent,...