Bill Scher

| Getting your | Death by Lightning is a gripping drama about the assassination of President James Garfield, spiced with F-bombs and tawdry sex, not a heavy-handed civics lesson. Yet the four-episode Netflix miniseries is also about the birth of the profe... See more

| Getting your | President Donald Trump’s comments to White House reporters last week about the proposed Warner Bros. Discovery sale should terrify every American: I wouldn’t want to see the same company end up with CNN … I think CNN should be sold becaus... See more

| Getting your | Electorally, Democrats have had a stellar 2025. According to The Downballot, “in more than 60 special elections nationwide, Democrats are outperforming the 2024 presidential results by an average of more than 13 points.” That tailwind has... See more

| Getting your | President Donald Trump is a convicted white-collar criminal who likes to let other white-collar criminals off the hook. That statement is not a columnist’s vitriol but factually correct. Last year, Trump was found guilty of falsifying bus... See more

| Getting your | President Donald Trump, during his December 2 cabinet meeting, spewed among the most hateful remarks publicly uttered by a president, certainly in modern times. Referring to Somali immigrants and the Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Om... See more