Tag: Column By John Young

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young I’ve loved Steve Kornacki. Loooved Steve Kornacki. As the MSNBC election numbers guy, he’s one of the most amazing talents on television. He can recite more …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young When a whistle-blower reported that then-President Trump had dangled military aid to Ukraine like a cat toy in an extortive bid to get President Zelensky to …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Let’s dispense with the “Are you better off today than four years ago?” pitch. Most people for whom this might matter only see the price of …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young “People in the Republican Party feel very comfortable disenfranchising people, throwing out their votes. Anyone who thinks the opposite has been purged from the Republican Party.” …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Jon Stewart didn’t let Bill Adair finish his sentence, so I’ll do it. Adair, the father of Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checker PolitiFact, was discussing his book “Beyond …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young If you ever wondered what makes a snake slippery, it’s not spray tan. That goo comes from a thin coat of fatty lubricant in a network …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young I had just turned off MSNBC when the doorbell rang. A dark-skinned man stood outside. He pointed a menacing weapon at my head (later Googled as …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young It was Aug. 26, 2019, in Biarritz, France, and Donald Trump greeted a friend as only he could – and get away with it politically. Having …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young “Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species,” wrote Thomas Paine. Acknowledging degrees of truth in Paine’s quip, let me defend my genome. Don’t downgrade …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Donald Trump is backpedaling like Primo Carnera. Stunned and harried, he hears the blessed bell. But it’s an illusion. The fighter before him is ringing his …