Nice Guy Biden vs. Leo Durocher

The campaign has established important things. Joe Biden, who continues periodically to insist he is running for the Senate, is a nice man, empathy oozing from every pore. Trump is not a nice man, not an empathetic bone in his body. Trump supporters are hoping that Leo Durocher, then manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was […]

Pelosi Trumps Trump

On Friday the over-stressed air traffic controllers at New York’s busy LaGuardia airport claimed that so many of their colleagues had stayed at home rather than work without pay that they couldn’t safely handle the traffic. So the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halted some incoming and outbound flights. With another missed payday due at the […]

US immigration tussle could lead to another government shutdown

  US immigration tussle could lead to another government shutdown * Recorded before the President made his latest proposal. Another government shutdown in the US looms, as Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on immigration. We speak to US economist Irwin Stelzer from the Hudson Institute in Washington.

Trump’s Tasks: Immigration and Trade

Returning from Davos, the gathering of the global elite who had never before seen fit to invite this exhibitionist television celebrity, familiar with the bankruptcy courts, to eschew Big Macs in favor of canapés for a few days, Donald Trump faces a more demanding test next Tuesday, when he delivers his first State of the […]