Steve Chapman: Why health care can’t be fixed
Bill Clinton tried to fix America’s health care problems and was shot down by Congress. Barack Obama got his solution enacted only to find most people didn’t like it. Republicans who voted repeatedly to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something far better have found it fiendishly hard to agree on how.
Steve Chapman: Trump’s continuing war on his own credibility
Asked about Melissa McCarthy’s portrayal of him on “Saturday Night Live,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer had some advice for the actress: “Dial it back.” May I suggest the president adopt that phrase as his administration motto?
Steve Chapman: Trump’s immigration crackdown will backfire
Government failures come in two basic forms.
Steve Chapman: Gun paranoia in the age of Trump
There were plenty of agitated and even hysterical reactions to Donald Trump’s election victory, but none more surprising than the one expressed in a direct mail letter I got a couple of days afterward.