The prisoner exchange merits a closer look — It is great that WNBA star Brittney Griner is no longer in a Russian prison. She was unjustly arrested on a drug charge, subject to a sham trial, and subjected to inhumane conditions while in captivity. Recently she has been held at an infamous Russian penal colony in Mordovia, 210…

By acting like a narcissistic gangster, Trump is doing what prosecutors and Democrats haven’t — Last week I remembered why I voted for Joe Biden in 2020. I liked the former VP, but what I really wanted was for Trump to be gone. And for a while, he was. He looked like and acted like a dead man walking. Then the FBI executed a search…

For some, the truth about Trump hasn’t worked; maybe pictures will — Mountains of evidence supporting the indictment of Donald Trump for the failed January 6, 2021 insurrection have failed to persuade a sizable group of Republicans that it’s time to move on. For whatever reasons, these Republicans have not seen Trump as an ugly human being that built a political career…

Sexual harassment will remain common until it is better understood and more aggressively prosecuted — We won’t have Andrew Cuomo to kick around in few days. The allegations of 11 women, most of them state employees, did him in. He not-so-graciously resigned, still not admitting his guilt, and cast his resignation as some sort of public sacrifice. …

The Republicans tried to kill it — Is The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol dead? After Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two Republican appointees to the committee, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew his other four appointees and announced that his party would not participate in the investigation. …

The gun-slinging Congresswoman from Rifle, Colorado Struts Her Stuff Members of the House Freedom Caucus offer political writers low-hanging fruit every day. If Matt Gaetz is not getting accused of more sex trafficking, Louie Gohmert is asking the Forest Service to change earth’s orbit to address climate change. …

But even his right-wing audience at CPAC was listless — Something I read on the web said Trump would address the CPAC conference at 3:40 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. Curious, I decided to watch, not so much to learn anything new, but to see what kind of reception he would receive. Trump was the most seditious president in our history…

And stupid, narcissistic, dangerous, and amusing — Congressman Matt Gaetz is back in the news. This time it is not only the sex-trafficking charges against him but also in connection with the botched purchase of a yacht and his announced takeover of the Republican party. Gaetz may be deeply troubled, but he does have energy. Let’s skip…

The Amazon billionaire is going to outer space on July 20 on his own rocket Exercising one of the prerogatives that comes with an estimated $185 billion fortune, Jeff Bezos has booked himself a trip to outer space. The trip, scheduled for July 20, will be historic. He will be…

With prosecutors closing in, it’s looking like the last hurrah — Donald Trump held his first post-presidential ‘campaign style’ rally on June 26 in Ohio. If this sort of gathering is your thing, you better make plans on attending the next one, scheduled for July 3 in Sarasota, Florida. …

We are all swimming in it — that’s a problem — The last time I attended a football game in Washington, one of my fellow fans was wearing a cap reading, “Instant Asshole: Just Add Alcohol.” And add it he did. During the first three quarters of the game, the guy drank no fewer than six Budweisers. As the game progressed…

Eight of the worst representatives in Congress vote for racism — Let’s keep this simple. A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, doesn’t belong in the U.S. Capitol building. Neither does a bust of Roger Taney, the Supreme Court Chief Justice that wrote the infamous1857 Dred Scott decision. The decision held that Scott, a Black man…

We need to understand what’s going on now to predict her future — Ready for the 2025 inauguration of President Harris? Some of us are. Others believe she is already president, setting all major policy decisions for a debilitated Biden while she prepares for the main event. Still, others see an out-of-her-league opportunist likely to lose to a Republican in 2024. Where’s reality…