The great community activist Amisha Patel died of cancer last week. Age 50–way too young. Ben riffs. And two Amisha-like fighters for justice return to talk about Trump and Lee Zeldin’s attempts to turn the Environmental Prot...
Play Latest EpisodeThe strange saga of John Phelan's recently aborted reign as secretary of the Navy is one of those Trump-era political stories that's so preposterous it's easy to think it’s fake. Unfortunately, it’s all too real.Please, follow. …
I want to begin this book report by apologizing to all my friends whose calls I ignored last weekend.Sorry, but I was preoccupied. Racing through the last 70 or so riveting pages of The Doorman, Chris Pavone's latest novel.I couldn't put it down…
Let me interrupt the horrors of Trump’s war against Iran to remind you of some good news that may have been lost amid the bombing.He fired Pam Bondi.Well, that’s not really the good news.The good news is why he fired her. Specifica…
As the man on the podcasting mic, I'm compelled to wade in on any rip-roaring controversy--especially the one involving Caleb, Skip, George & Jerry.So here goes...Caleb Williams is the sensational, young quarterback, who led my beloved Bears…
In a sign of the insanity of our political times, the solar and wind-mill crowd in Texas has decided to advance its clean-energy cause by getting behind an oil-and-gas guy for attorney general.I know, that makes about as much sense as anything in …
There's a tiny street in Michigan--near a VA hospital in Battle Creek--named for Dwight "Skip" Johnson.I think I'll go there one day. To pay my respects to a good man killed by his country.Not literally. In actuality, Johnson was shot dead by a …