It seems whenever 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former first lady Hillary Clinton has been popping up in public lately, it's only with a bad word to say about somebody.

In the U.S., there are currently 11 confirmed deaths caused by COVID-19 also known as coronavirus. Case rates are on the rise, with the virus infecting over 90,000 people worldwide so far.

Almost like a man with a valuable hostage, Donald Trump paraded Dr Fauci in front of the cameras in the White House press briefing room. And like the good soldier that he's been for every president--Democrat or Republican--for going on nearly 40 years now, Dr Fauci told the assembled reporters what Trump wanted him to say.

If only Trump put his faith in a grown-up like Tony Fauci instead of treating him like a child or the enemy, perhaps the markets--and the nation--would already be more at ease.

If the American people spend these next months worrying about the dual evils of infection and a crashing economy, Trump won't have anyone to blame but himself.

A recent article by a Taliban spokesman falls squarely in the tradition of op-ed pages of major American newspapers for decades. Op-eds, including the most polarizing opinion pieces such as the one penned by the Taliban spokesman, serve an important function, if only we are capable of enough critical thinking to make them worthwhile, according to a media historian, professor, author and former radio broadcaster.

Democrats in red and purple districts aren't afraid to go on the offensive and use this new political weapon in this year's campaign.

Not even two weeks after morally blind Senate Republicans acquitted him of trying to withhold needed military aid to Ukraine in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into one of his domestic political opponents, Donald Trump basically tried the same shakedown Friday, this time on the good people of New York.

Today, if you support Trump, you are either or both a racist and a sadist.

While his GOP colleagues have tied themselves in knots of illogic in rationalizing why they all are refusing to follow the clear evidence, Romney is showing a bit of the shine of the Republican party of old, and is doing the honorable and patriotic thing.