Michael Hiltzik

One problem that promoters of cryptocurrencies have faced since the asset class first emerged is that its reputation stinks. Crypto trading has become identified by regulators and in the public mind as a haven for scams, theft and other forms […]

Reading the obituaries for former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), who died at 93 on March 14, you would think he was a pleasure to have around — a life-and-soul-of-the-party man and a perfect scream, as P.G. Wodehouse might have described

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers posted some well-chosen words Saturday about Donald Trump’s bewildering and pointless tariff war, which had been launched earlier that day. In a string of tweets, he called the 25% tariffs Trump proposed on goods

Back in 2018, during Donald Trump’s first term, his appointed director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, gleefully described his plan to emasculate the bureau by bringing the financial firms victimizing Americans under its protective umbrella. “We are

Over the last two years, the Republican-dominated House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic conducted 38 interviews and depositions, held 25 hearings and meetings, and examined more than 1 million pages of documents. Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), a podiatrist, called

Dear readers: Hang on to your hats. I’m about to praise Donald Trump for one of his Cabinet nominees. She’s Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), who will be the nominee for secretary of Labor. Chavez-DeRemer has solid pro-labor credentials, a huge

“Well, Felix, this elects me.” The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, monitoring radio reports of a political disaster unfolding in Herbert Hoover’s Washington. It was 1932. Hoover

The arguments made by antiabortion states to sugarcoat their manifestly misogynistic policies have always borne the acrid odor of cynicism and hypocrisy. You know what I mean: that their restrictions on reproductive medical care are all about protecting the health

Up to now, Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has been careful about rolling out its policy initiatives, and — at least in political terms — for good reason. Policy details at this stage of a campaign do little but give opponents