During a rage-fueled rant in Phoenix a few days ago, President Donald Trump threatened a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t appropriate the billions he needs to construct a wall along the Southern border. Though he now ignores his once-upon-a-time pledge that Mexico would pay for the wall, it’s no surprise that the president pulled out […]

Our new government is founded upon . . the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. — Alexander Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy, 1861 As if he had not already dumped enough fuel on a raging inferno, […]

Every week, it seems, a new poll shows President Donald Trump’s approval rating sliding further into uncharted lows, as the leader of the free world alienates allies, goads adversaries and challenges friends. Political commentators point out that no president in modern history has had approval ratings as low as Trump’s so early in his tenure. […]