danielrubin
Senior Editor, News Features @phillyinquirer @phillydailynews @phillydotcom. Ex-Berlin bureau chief, columnist. @Penn adjunct of 10 years. https://danielrubinphl.wordpress.com
We have no hurricanes, cyclones or statewide freezes in California. Earthquakes, yes. Torrential downpours, yes. Mudslides, yes. Extended droughts, yes. A president who kicks us when we're down, yes. All that, as well as mass shootings and…
Now that they're set to assume control of the House, there are at least 85 topics that Democrats have said they'd target — or are expected to target — in the forthcoming torrent of investigations and subpoenas to be directed at the…
He can't catch a ball very well anymore. He misses plenty of handshakes; his arm shortchanges the reach, his palm fumbles the grip. And he has trouble with dumb little tasks — he needs to touch a pitcher to a cup to properly pour a glass of…
House Democrats plan to investigate whether President Trump abused White House power by targeting — and trying to punish with 'instruments of state power' — The Washington Post and CNN, incoming House intelligence committee chairman…
Audio will be available later today. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about the shakeup at the Department of Justice.
PARIS—The ceremony was planned long in advance. A chance for French President Emmanuel Macron to welcome world leaders to mark the centenary of the Armistice that ended the hostilities of the World War I. A way to decry nationalism and…
In the America of my childhood, the Crayola box contained a crayon labeled “flesh.” Flesh was intended to approximate the skin color of people. People, if the Crayola box was to be believed, came in one color, a pinky beige. It was…
This year will mark the passing of a full century since the end of World War I—a hundred years since the “War to End All Wars.” In that time, much of the battle-ravaged landscape along the Western Front has been reclaimed by…
HELL, DAMNATION AND A NEW TOWN BRAT IT was a chill, damp Wednesday in Edinburgh on November 13, 1850 – the kind of day Victorians, in dread of tuberculosis and the fatality of all manner of coughs and chills, hated. In a well-appointed New…
Last May, The Washington Post's James Hohmann noted “an uncovered dynamic” that helped explain the GOP's failure to repeal Obamacare. Three current Democratic House members had opposed the Affordable Care Act when it first passed.
