Dick Polman
The Trump regime has trafficked in self-parody since its inception, so perhaps we're already numb to the news that it intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency...
Now that the inevitable moment of truth has finally arrived - with Donald Trump in banana republic mode, concocting a phony national emergency, flouting the will of Congress and trampling its constitutional spending power - we will soon learn whether..
As I soldiered through Chris Christie’s spin-memoir “Let Me Finish,” I found myself flashing back to September 2011, when he was being widely touted as the GOP’s “Next Big Thing...
It's morning in America. Food inspectors will get paid again to stop the spread of disease. Hopefully, this detestable episode - assuming it's not repeated - will be viewed as just another Trumpian debacle...
Are we capable of connecting two dots? We don't know whether Donald Trump ginned up the shutdown to draw our attention away from the increasingly hair-raising evidence that he is indeed a clear and present danger to our national security...
True news: Donald Trump storms out of a White House meeting after he doesn't get what he wants (billions of dollars for a fake crisis), and tells off congressional Democratic leaders by tweeting, "bye bye...
Phew, what a year it was! But the biggest story of all was the multifaceted exposure of the Trump crime scene. Here are my dirty dozen questions. Which of these enterprises is not under federal or state investigation? 2...
Did my ears deceive me? In so many words, yes...
We're nearing the midpoint of Donald Trump's first-term tenure - assuming he makes it to the finish line - yet we in the media still haven't decided whether it's wise or wasteful to award air time to Kellyanne Conway...
In case you're wondering why you should care about a scandal-ridden House race in North Carolina - the last race on the midterm calendar that has yet to be decided - I'll simply quote congressional expert Molly Reynolds, who's based at the Brookings ..
Thirty years ago at The Philadelphia Inquirer, in the early autumn of 1988, I was handed my first assignment as a political writer. W...
There's an old saying, attributed to nobody in particular, that Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity...
Full Archive
- 02/26/2019 The Trump Regime Wants to Believe the Earth is Flat
- 02/18/2019 Fealty to Trump or the Constitution?
- 02/05/2019 Chris Christie is Desperate for Any Piece of the Action
- 01/29/2019 Five Takeaways from the Farcical Trump Shutdown
- 01/15/2019 Border ‘Crisis’ Distracts Us From the True National Emergency
- 01/10/2019 If President Hillary Clinton Had Stormed Out of a Meeting…
- 01/01/2019 A Dirty Dozen Trump Trivia Quiz
- 12/25/2018 Are Republicans Finally Smelling the Trumpster Fire?
- 12/21/2018 Should There Be a TV Ban on Kellyanne?
- 12/11/2018 The Republican Election Fraud that Trump Refuses to Tweet About
- 12/04/2018 Before He Was ‘Kinder, Gentler,’ Poppy Bush Pioneered TV Ad Lies
- 11/19/2018 The Ridiculous Democratic Rebellion Against Nancy Pelosi
- 11/07/2018 Blue Wave Meets Red Wall: Split decision for a Divided Nation
- 10/30/2018 Trump Sows the Wind, Reaps the Whirlwind
- 10/03/2018 There’s One Big Loser in the Kavanaugh Fight
- 09/24/2018 Republicans Determined to Alienate as Many Women as Possible
- 09/12/2018 All Talk, No Action: A Republican Metaphor
- 08/26/2018 Democratic Diversity is Making America Great Again
- 08/02/2018 Donald Trump and ‘The Death of Truth’
- 07/25/2018 Lots of Tips on How to Live Sanely in Trumplandia
- 07/10/2018 Trump Buys Survival Insurance From Brett Kavanaugh
- 07/03/2018 Hey, Democrats: It’s The Supreme Court Stupid
- 06/19/2018 Will Trump’s Kid Cruelty Sink the GOP in November?
- 06/12/2018 Trump Envies ‘Love’ for North Korean Dictator
- 05/23/2018 Four Reasons Democrats Could Lose the Congressional Midterms
- 05/16/2018 The Profiteer-in-Chief Goes Belly Up for China
- 05/03/2018 Rudy and His Fox News Farce
- 04/19/2018 Missouri’s Republican Sex Scandal is Way Better Than Trump’s
Cited by the Columbia Journalism Review website as one of the nation's top political scribes, and by ABC News' online political tip sheet as "one of the finest political journalists of his generation, " Dick Polman is the national political columnist at Philadlephia NPR affiliate WHYY, and has covered or chronicled every presidential campaign since 1988.
A Philadelphia resident, Dick roamed the country for most of his 22 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been blogging daily since 2006. He's currently on the full-time faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as "Writer in Residence." He has been a frequent guest on C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and various NPR shows - most notably Philadelphia's "Radio Times" on WHYY-FM.
Column Archive
- 02/26/2019 The Trump Regime Wants to Believe the Earth is Flat
- 02/18/2019 Fealty to Trump or the Constitution?
- 02/05/2019 Chris Christie is Desperate for Any Piece of the Action
- 01/29/2019 Five Takeaways from the Farcical Trump Shutdown
- 01/15/2019 Border ‘Crisis’ Distracts Us From the True National Emergency
- 01/10/2019 If President Hillary Clinton Had Stormed Out of a Meeting…
- 01/01/2019 A Dirty Dozen Trump Trivia Quiz
- 12/25/2018 Are Republicans Finally Smelling the Trumpster Fire?
- 12/21/2018 Should There Be a TV Ban on Kellyanne?
- 12/11/2018 The Republican Election Fraud that Trump Refuses to Tweet About
- 12/04/2018 Before He Was ‘Kinder, Gentler,’ Poppy Bush Pioneered TV Ad Lies
- 11/19/2018 The Ridiculous Democratic Rebellion Against Nancy Pelosi
- 11/07/2018 Blue Wave Meets Red Wall: Split decision for a Divided Nation
- 10/30/2018 Trump Sows the Wind, Reaps the Whirlwind
- 10/03/2018 There’s One Big Loser in the Kavanaugh Fight
- 09/24/2018 Republicans Determined to Alienate as Many Women as Possible
- 09/12/2018 All Talk, No Action: A Republican Metaphor
- 08/26/2018 Democratic Diversity is Making America Great Again
- 08/02/2018 Donald Trump and ‘The Death of Truth’
- 07/25/2018 Lots of Tips on How to Live Sanely in Trumplandia