Some journalist needs to ask Donald Trump a modern version of the question Bernard Shaw asked Michael Dukakis in 1988: If one of your daughters, Ivanka or Tiffany, were raped and became pregnant with the rapist’s child, should she be allowed to have an abortion? If abortion were banned, would you help her get one […]
Kurt Erickson has a piece in the Post-Dispatch about Missouri lawmakers who rent rooms in Jefferson City houses that are owned by lobbyists: It’s all perfectly legal for lawmakers to have business dealings with lobbyists under Missouri’s wide-open ethics laws, where candidates can take unlimited amounts of campaign money and be wined and dined by […]
About a decade ago, I was offered the opportunity to interview Abdallah bin Yahya Al-Moallimi, the Saudi ambassador to the UN, while he was in St. Louis. I have a long history of speaking out against Saudi Arabia, our “partner in peace,” so I agreed to have him in the studio only if there were […]
Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner loves what Bernie Sanders says, but… I’ve been watching the debates and town halls for the past two months, and Sanders’ righteousness knocks me out. My heart is with him. He has brought the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations to the ballot box. But it is not enough to be a […]
Nate Silver doubts that Donald Trump can turn any blue states red, which he would have to do to win the general election. I’d go further than that by asking what demographic Trump has a chance in? He’s not going to do well with women, African-Americans, Muslims, Latinos, or millennials, all of whom will turn […]
For a wider perspective on this bizarre presidential election year, here’s my conversation with Katty Kay of BBC World News America. Among the questions I asked her: How much time and money is spent on elections in England (prepare to be shocked!) Have there been candidates similar to Donald Trump in the UK or elsewhere in […]