I like to say that the unique thing about the Bridgegate scandal is that it represents the first time in political history that Chris Christie got into a big fight with a Democrat rather than a ...

Maybe Paul Mulshine needs to go back to school. At least it would give him the opportunity to learn the meaning of “fascist,” which, based on a recent column, he clearly does not know. In discussing ...

In the 1980s, the Kinks put out an album titled “Give the People What They Want.” “The more they get, the more they need,” went the lyrics. “And every time they get harder and harder to please.” ...

I think I have deduced the problem that will haunt Kamala Harris through this week’s debate and during whatever remains of her political career: She went to law school. Perhaps she should have studied ...

That didn’t take long. Tuesday was the first day of October and I was on the phone with Bob Baer. He’s a former CIA agent who spent a lot of time knocking around places like Lebanon and Syria One ...

Disco may be dead, but the Dead are still alive. I learned that last week when I was doing some field research into liquor license reform under Gov. Phil Murphy. I disagree with the governor on just ...

(This is a column I first wrote in 2014, updated with a few more modern references) We had several articles in the Star-Ledger the other day on the upcoming “Black Friday” sales. Am I the only one who ...

In politics, the term “dog whistle” is used to connote a message the speaker wants to send without stating it outright. Until Donald Trump came along. Last week the Donald took that figurative dog and ...

One day last week as I was driving up Route 35 in Point Pleasant Beach, I had to slam on the brakes. A group of pedestrians from Canada were crossing the road. Not human pedestrians. Geese. About a ...

There are some issues that determine the difference between a thinking conservative and a loyal Republican. One such issue is the question of what role the Congress has in the events of Jan. 6 in a ...

Back in the days before we had modern computers, the results of elections were normally known by the end of Election Day. Those results were definitive, and only rarely were there objections to the ...

It looks like Californians have finally learned a lesson from those fires that swept through Los Angeles. But, like the lesson learned by that mythical man on the gallows, they learned it too late.