Best Thing I’ve Read Today
For years, I have been talking about how Saudi Arabia -- not Iran -- remains the biggest threat in the Middle East. With King Salman visiting the White House today (and taking over the entire Four Seasons hotel in DC), this Thomas L. Friedman column hits...
Electile Dysfunction
Because the GOP is having its first big debate tonight, every media outlet keeps reporting that Donald Trump is ahead in every poll. What they don't say is that, because voters aren't paying attention yet (and won't until the new year begins, at the earliest),...
Joe Biden For President?
Here's my conversation with Josh Kraushaar, politics editor at National Journal about whether Joe Biden will enter the presidential race. I asked Josh what differentiates Biden from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, how he can catch up to her in the campaign...
The High Cost Of Cancer Drugs
If your doctor diagnosed you with cancer, you'd be devastated. But you'd be doubly devastated when you found out how much cancer drugs cost -- over $100,000/year! That's why 118 of the nation's leading cancer experts have proposed ideas that would reduce those costs....
The Trump Effect
Here's my conversation with ABC political analyst Steve Roberts about Donald Trump's effect on the GOP presidential field, why he's still leading in some polls, and how other candidates are trying to outdo him to get more attention. I also asked Steve about the impact...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Six months ago, I wrote a short piece praising Jimmy Carter as our Best Ex-President Ever. Now here's NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Jimmy Carter's legacy... It’s true that Carter sometimes floundered as president. He also had great difficulty, as an outsider,...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
The right wing has proven itself again and again to live in an evidence-free world. To them, facts are irrelevant, even biased, if they don't follow the extremist conservative agenda. That's why so many of them still believe that Obamacare has been a debacle. But as...
Picture Of The Day
This is my pick for Best Newspaper Front Page Of The Year, from today's NY Daily News: