Those painfully familiar with this column (I think that covers just about everyone) know of my penchant to lean, perhaps crutch-like, on movies, books, and songs to encapsulate or make more vivid an ...

Court decisions can sound complicated because they sometimes contain legal language that is difficult for a layperson to understand. That's not the situation in the case of Fulton County, Georgia's ...

Of course expectations were too high. Barack Obama’s ascension unleashed the pent-up hopes of liberals who’d seethed helplessly through the eight-year idiocracy of George W. Bush. Reflective, ...

Is there no end to the mendacity? That is my first thought when I see the ad blitz for the campaign to defeat a constitutional amendment before Ohio voters in a special August vote. The ad claims ...

Sarah Palin did not call dinosaurs “lizards of Satan.” Barack Obama is not a Muslim. That list of books Palin supposedly wants to ban is a fake. Obama doesn’t refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mendacity, Mendacity, Mendacity— the world worships at the feet of Mendacity! I am enraged and frustrated by the Mendacity that is in our world today. I read the papers, listen to people speak and I ...

Playwright Jason Wells' Men of Tortuga was an intriguing and exciting addition to the Asolo Rep's lineup a couple of seasons ago, with a dark comedic viewpoint of the extremes to which men in power ...

COHEN GETS MENDACIOUS AND MENDACITYIt's tempting to skip past Richard Cohen columns just as a matter of habit, but today's op-ed is so odd, one wonders how Washington Post editors even let it run. The ...

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must feel like one of those Top 40 radio stations of old: The hits just keep a-coming! On Thursday, the Georgia Court of Appeals ordered Willis removed from ...

I was raised in the Bronx; Susan Collins grew up in Caribou, Maine. She graduated from Caribou schools; I graduated from Public School 95. Caribou was once a thriving potato shipping hub – her parents ...