Larry Hackett
Hollywood has questions to answer over positive police stereotypes
Video games encourage violence, rap music fans disrespect, movies promote premarital sex. It’s easy to blame Hollywood, instead of doing the real...
As coronavirus exposes a failing Trump, New Yorkers look to ‘the new Giuliani’
In 2002, Andrew Cuomo ran for governor of New York State. He was the ambitious son of the legendary three-term governor Mario...
Why Bloomberg is the only candidate strong enough to withstand Trump
The US Democratic presidential primary race has outgrown the worn cliches about Game of Thrones. We’re now onto something new: the legend...
What the Trump impeachment scandal really means. A dummy’s guide to impeaching a US president
For those of you still trying to figure out why Brexit is so darned complicated, here’s a new international political problem to...
Jeffrey Epstein: Conspiracy theories and what should happen next
Am I the only one who noticed that accused US sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died on the 50th anniversary of the Manson...
Mueller’s report emboldens Democrats to keep the heat on Trump
When the summary of the Mueller Report into Russian influence over the 2016 US presidential election was issued last month, it looked...
Mueller report clears Democratic mindset for presidential push
Ignore the parsing, the unanswered questions, the calls for more details: Monday’s report clearing President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia during...
The true story of Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen is not a good guy. He is not a victim of Donald Trump, but a conveniently contrite bully-for-hire heading to...
Why the tabloids have really gone after Jeff Bezos
In the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, US founding father Alexander Hamilton is confronted by his political rivals with proof that he’s made...
Why all of the US is waiting on Joe
Sure, Democratic US presidential hopefuls are already herding into the starting gates, staking out “lanes” of potential support among the party’s progressive/centrist/suburban...