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We are all Donald Trump now. In 1963, JFK went to the Berlin wall and said, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner). Following

When I started on this mission of writing about songwriters and how they weren’t being properly acknowledged, I had absolutely no idea that I’d

Obama’s had a great couple of weeks politically, but he’s still gone as of January 20, 2017. That leaves a vacuum that the political

No, not that race card. But some candidate will play it before the election. Promise. I mean the horse race card. I’m abandoning the Survivor

Every campaign has at least one noir moment, when (as in film noir) the protagonist tries to do The Right Thing but winds up

When Stephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness" in 2005, he meant "

We're back on the boat deck filled with potential Survivor contestants, waiting to see who will commit by jumping into the water and swimming

WHEN TO WATCH: Pick a broadcast network and watch the nightly news. Any day. Or pick a cable network opinion-veiled-as-news show. Watch any minute.

On second thought, don't flash that cash—I'll get ill. The Koch brothers have reportedly committed $900 million, give-or-take, to Republican 2016 campaigns—and are currently

Political Survivor: USA. This show plays almost continuously, with an ever-changing cast, on many shows and many networks. I discovered the first season of Survivor