Columnist.
On Sunday, President Trump, absent any hard evidence, suggested that large numbers of masks were being stolen from New York hospitals, citing an unnamed facility he said had seen a huge surge in mask usage. "How do you go from 10 to 20 [thousand masks being used], to 300,000?" Trump said.
"I think you and any viewer knows exactly where I`m going with this," MSNBC host Ari Melber said halfway into a stemwinder of a question for Sen. Cory Booker.
The social and political response to major catastrophes often proceeds in stages. Stage 1 is denial. Thankfully, this stage is largely over for the coronavirus crisis. Not counting a few poltroons and conspiracy theorists, nobody is saying it's all hype or no big deal.
If there's one thing worth knowing about China — in terms of geopolitics and American national security at least — it's that its rulers are almost as afraid of the people as the people are afraid of them.
My advice for Joe Biden: Don't do that again. That might seem like counterintuitive advice given that Biden won Sunday night's debate decisively. But Biden doesn't need to debate any more. There's supposed to be another round in April, but there's nothing stopping the Democratic Party from canceling that. Everything else is getting canceled, after all.
Amidst all of the well-placed urgency and occasionally misplaced panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have decided there's a pressing need to debate whether terms such as "Wuhan virus" or "Chinese coronavirus" are racist.
It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for the president.
People really seem to struggle with the word "coup."
Now will someone listen? Early voting is stupid.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president, is praised by his admirers for being consistent. He's been saying the same things for 40 years, they explain — as if this is an obvious compliment. I think that's kind of weird.
In "Jaws 2," Roy Scheider reprises his role as Police Chief Brody, the landlubber lawman forced to battle a great white shark. He's convinced there's another beast out there, but he can't persuade anyone who matters.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who did not have a great performance in Wednesday's Democratic debate, nevertheless said something interesting.
The Bloomberg-Bernie battle is almost like a comic book come to life. The two combatants cover almost every cliche on the right-wing scorecard.
For most of my life the rule of thumb was that the GOP was the ideological party and the Democratic Party was the coalitional party.
Things are not going swimmingly for the Democrats right now.
One of my favorite running jokes on the internet is, "You had one job."
As the impeachment trial fizzles out this week, I'm left wondering if the GOP has lost its mind, because the only other choice is that I have.
Dear Republican senators, I will not try to convince you how to vote in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
"I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count."
