Politics

Reworking great poetry in the service of satire, here with all the formality of a Shakespeare-style sonnet. Only satire captures the full absurdity of the bizarre election cycle, starring a fraudulent, unqualified TV celebrity in full disruption of a national party that started with Lincoln. Humor trumps befuddlement, as it were, at least this week.

When two leaders, each with the ability to destroy the world, agree to get along, that's a good thing. Period.

Brown faces decades in prison.

Islamic extremism gets all the press, but Trump is just one of a growing number of Christian extremists in positions of political power.

“In America, the twenty years since 2000 have seen the end game of the Reagan Revolution, begun in 1980.”

The vote is "an important step forward in making the Democratic Party more open, democratic and responsive to the input of ordinary Americans."

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and the rest of the Republican Party have decided to embrace Trump and all that he says.

His success four years ago may impede his second candidacy. Not only is he four years older, Bernie is no longer the only progressive in town.

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

In his speech after the summit, Obama asserted that his Arab guests were reassured about his Iran negotiations, and he reaffirmed US commitment to their security. He also chastised Iran for “meddling” in the region.