Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor

Multiple times over the last four years, former President Donald Trump warned that the threat of terrorism was real and was rising. In October 2023, after noting that hundreds of individuals on the terror watch list — officially designated the […]

Republicans will be thrilled that the Democratic Party continues to prove itself clueless and tone deaf coming up on two months after President-elect Trump’s decisive and power-shifting victory. But if you are one of tens of millions of Americans being

I once had the honor to work as a principal at one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. Years before that, I worked on three presidential campaigns. As the 2024 presidential campaign played out between first former

Did you hear the one about the “common sense, pragmatic” Democrats who stood up to the far-left cabal within their own party? No? Neither did I. And neither, apparently, has Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), who posted on X right after

Some of my earliest childhood memories revolve around the name Kennedy. I was born in the Dorchester neighborhood in the heart of Boston, which has long had Kennedy connections. Because of the many problems caused by my highly dysfunctional, alcoholic

For decades, we have heard about and often ignored “the Silent Majority.” Time and again, Republican leaders have predicted that this seemingly mythical phenomenon was going to come to the fore and save the country from destructive Democratic policies. At

Presidential debates are often like Rorschach tests for partisans who see what they want to see in the performance. Instead of imagining the random ink stain to be a “beautiful butterfly,” they view it instead as a decisive win for

What is a “news” site in 2024? What is a “journalist?” In many cases, I can’t tell any longer. In a nation and a world crying out for honest, non-biased investigative journalism, we are often getting “reporting” that either supports