Convenient mea culpas appear to be part of the job description of the elusive Meredith McIver.

I’ve been waiting for the Clinton campaign to respond to Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” meme by pointing out that fraud, including bank fraud, is generally considered crooked—i.e., illegal.  To no avail, of course; that would require some guts and going off-script. But in light of Christie’s speech last night, might the Clinton campaign consider featuring at […]

Trump said he wants party unity.  This is what he meant. He’s been working toward this for months.  Now it’s official.  Will Clinton point this out, or will she be afraid to?

Facing a fall contest against a Republican opponent focused on law and order, Hillary Clinton has narrowed her search for a vice­-presidential candidate, telling several potential running mates that she needs a No. 2 who would bring national security experience to the Democratic ticket. Mrs. Clinton’s shortlist includes James G. Stavridis, a retired four-­star Navy […]

For days, I have felt morally obliged to report on the Italian slow motion crisis of banks with tens of billions of non performing loans. I’ve had trouble making myself work (as usual). So I hand the mike to Daniel Davies. The background is that the world’s oldest bank Monte Dei Paschi di Sienna is […]

$19 billion? $8 billion? A few hundred million? Estimates are all over the map regarding the European Commission’s imminent decision on whether Apple received illegal, unnotified state aid (subsidies) from Ireland. As I mentioned two years ago, two factors go into the Commission’s claim: Ireland’s creation of a corporate entity that is taxable nowhere, and […]

I don’t want to compare myself to other people [in contention for the job], but I will tell you I’ve spoken with so many groups and I’ve represented those folks as a small-town lawyer, as a small-town mayor, as a state senator, then representing the state. I understand those folks and their struggles,” [Agriculture Secretary […]

by Mike Kimel Interactions Between Black People and the Police A lot of Americans want the police reigned in, particularly when it comes to their interactions with Black people. Black people are more likely to be stopped by police than people of other ethnicities, and sometimes those stops end badly. My take on this issue […]

“It was a little cocker spaniel dog… and our little girl—Tricia, the 6-year-old—named it Checkers.”