For decades I have been hearing the old courtroom saying about how a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if given the chance, but I never expected to see it happen. What the saying conveys is that grand juries, which approve or reject charges to go to trial, only hear from one side, the ...

Last week, two things happened that may shed some light on where American capitalism is heading. First, Tesla’s board caved in to Elon Musk’s demand that he get a pay package of $1 trillion (if he meets various goals). Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package is so grotesque as to make a ...

“Everything she writes,” Mary McCarthy famously said about playwright Lillian Hellman, “is a lie — including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” Historians wrestling with how Americans permitted their democracy to be so badly debased during the President Donald Trump era will have to first ...

Donald Trump’s approval numbers continue to crater. Even Republicans have cooled on the president’s performance. But the president shows no sign of noticing, nor is he changing his ways. Even his gaslighting has gone wan. He’s failed to make Americans believe that prices are going down ...

I once met a man who claimed to make up his mind who he wanted in presidential elections only after stepping into the voting booth. “Are you kidding me?” I asked, aghast. How could anyone, I marveled, not know who they were planning to vote for? What were they waiting for, a message ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a rodent to pique my interest and steal my heart. The black-tailed prairie dog lives in ...