By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun
December 11, 2019
To gauge what passes for progressive humor on topical politics, one can do worse than watching each week’s cold open that precedes the credits for “Saturday Night Live.” For more than three years, its mainstay has been to heap ridicule on President Trump. Last weekend, SNL widened its net to capture Britain’s Prime Minister.
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun
December 10, 2019
Brexiteers anxious to spread the good news of independence cannot deny that theirs has been an uphill battle. Sisyphus, the mythical Greek cursed to push a gigantic boulder up a mountain, has been their avatar; no sooner is the summit reached but that the burden rolls back to the bottom, forcing Sisyphus to resume his labors. Such has the cause of British independence.
The death of Paul Volcker is a sad moment here at the Sun. The chairman of the Federal Reserve who, in the 1980s, conquered inflation slipped away Sunday after a long illness. Of all the public officials we covered over the decades, it is hard to...
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 10, 2019
The 78th anniversary on Saturday of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was widely observed and brought back to public discussion the achievements of what has been called “The Greatest Generation.” This was the term popularized, I believe, by N...
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun
December 8, 2019
Given the political roller-coaster ride the cause of British independence has endured for most of 2019, these several weeks of politicking before Thursday’s general election have been anticlimactic. Like most electoral campaigns, parties vie to outd...
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun
December 6, 2019
MEXICO CITY — Can Speaker Pelosi afford to President Trump a victory as the country enters a presidential election year? Can she afford not to? Those are the questions here after the House Ways and Means chairman, Richard Neal, told reporter...
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 4, 2019
As the Democrats toil to make their impeachment effort look like something other than a partisan smear job and legal scam, President Trump is at the NATO leaders’ meeting in London, observing the 70th anniversary of that organization, and is able t...
President Trump’s trip to London for the NATO summit is a reminder of the political importance of an enemy. The North Atlantic Treaty that came into force in 1949 does not mention the Soviet Union. But its preamble referring to “the principles...
Constitutionally backward is how we would describe the assertion by the Democrats that President Trump is being contemptuous of Congress by failing to mount in the House a defense against impeachment. The Times, in an editorial this afternoon, says...
When Britons go to the polls on Thursday to choose the 58th Parliament, The New York Sun will be rooting for Boris Johnson. It might seem preposterous for an American publication to make an endorsement in a British election. Then again, too, one wag noted, if the Sun hadn’t, at the last minute, emerged as the only national paper to endorse Donald Trump, Secretary of State Clinton might be president. More seriously, it’s hard to think of many political causes in which we’ve been more invested over the years than that of an independent Britain.
It hasn’t drawn much notice but Mayor Bloomberg’s interview with Gayle King of CBS contains a kind of boomerang that must have given President Trump a moment of ironical satisfaction. At least that’s what we draw from Mr. Bloomberg’s defense of...
What would John Ruskin say? That's the question I'm trying to process here in my studio in the backwoods of Maine, where I just discovered on the internet the front page of Friday's New York Post. It boasts a photo of an artwork that consists of a...
By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun
November 28, 2019
The following first appeared on Thanksgiving 2017. * * * What luck. Just as I was sitting down to write a Thanksgiving column, the news broke that one in three Americans vows to avoid talking politics at the holiday table. My plan had been a column...
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
November 26, 2019
The biggest opportunity of Mayor Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is the chance he has to make sure that capitalism has a future inside the Democratic Party. Some others are also making tentative, welcome steps in that direction. In this month...
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