#BrettKavanaugh -The Supreme Court must “never be viewed as a partisan institution.” But that’s what it is thanks to a GOP willing to break all the norms to control it. This deepens the anger over the failure to take Kavanaugh’s accusers seriously My column

Why do journalists persist in investigating accusations against #BrettKavanaugh ? It’s not a liberal conspiracy. It’s because Judiciary Committee Republicans said they supported an FBI inquiry and it turned out to be a sham. My column

Words can’t capture my sadness over #CokieRoberts ’ death. Her love of life, politics & journalism was infectious. She had no time for cant or pretension. I’m forever grateful for the warmth she & Steve showed me when I started out in journalism. I’m one of many to be so blessed.

“The unimaginable may have happened...Based on initial exit polls, the age of Benjamin Netanyahu may have come to an end...Israel stood at the edge of a religious-nationalist abyss and, at the very last moment, took a step back.” @ChemiShalev  @haaretzcom 

The taxpayers didn’t rescue #GM  so the company could offshore jobs & keep wages down. The #UAWStrike  is about issues that go to the heart of the challenges facing U.S. wage earners in an economy undergoing rapid change. It matters to all workers. My column

Those of us who supported keeping #GM  alive didn’t do so to make it easier for management to outsource jobs or hold down pay forever. Every Democratic candidate for president should be joining the #UAW ’s picket lines to drive that point home. My column

“Democratic [House] districts have seen their median household income soar in a decade—from $54,000 in 2008 to $61,000 in 2018....Republican districts began slightly higher in 2008, but then declined from $55,000 to $53,000.” @BrookingsInst  study

Thanks to my colleague @ThePlumLineGS  for sharing that @BrookingsInst  study I just tweeted. He is right to see that the big Red/Blue economic gap will encourage more #Trump  demagoguery. It also cries out for new policy thinking on regional inequality.

Why the CIA information #Trump  is stonewalling could be about a scandal “way, way worse than Watergate,” @JRubinBlogger  writes.

“Trump used the July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to pressure [him] to more aggressively pursue an investigation that Trump believed would deliver potential political dirt against one of the president’s political adversaries”