With Guest Stars Jim, Lincoln, and Martin
I was in Las Vegas this weekend, playing poker, betting on NFL games, and having some good meals. Monday morning, while walking to The Peppermill (my favorite spot for breakfast in that town), I passed CNN's setup in front of The Wynn, the site of tonight's debate...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Nicholas Kristof in today's New York Times: In Great Britain, people used to kill themselves by putting their heads in the oven and asphyxiating themselves with coal gas. This accounted for almost half of British suicides in the late 1950s, but Britain then began...
Donald Trump, African Dictator
Trevor Noah really hit his stride on his fourth "Daily Show" with this piece comparing Donald Trump to megalomaniacal African dictators...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
An excerpt from former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' 2014 book, "Six Amendments: How And Why We Should Change The Constitution," in which he explains the five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment... As a result of the rulings in Heller and...
Ted Cruz's Constitutional Ignorance
Tuesday night, Ted Cruz was a guest on Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" and got a little bit of heat from the host when he invoked Ronald Reagan's name. For some reason, within the GOP, that's like mentioning Jesus Christ, because they believe that Ronnie was the savior...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Gail Collins on what happens if GOP extremists succeed in closing down more Planned Parenthood clinics: When Planned Parenthood leaves town, bad things follow. Ask the county in Indiana that drove out its clinic, which happened to be the only place in the area that...
Mr. Smith Goes To Prison
Former Missouri state senator Jeff Smith spent 10 months in federal prison in Kentucky for lying to the FBI about a campaign finance law violation in 2004 when he ran for Congress. Now a professor at The New School, Jeff returned to my show to talk about the book...
The Truth About Illegal Immigration
Because we're approaching another presidential election, there's been a lot of talk about illegal immigration -- but far too much of what you're hearing is simply wrong, even (or especially) when it comes out of the mouth of presidential candidates. What they don't...