Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That’s a helluva qualification for president, isn’t it?

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.