Robert Rector

It’s Academy Awards week. But excuse me if I don’t walk around whistling “Hooray for Hollywood.”  In my somewhat jaded view, the O...

In a desperate act of self-preservation, I decided to kick the social media habit one recent evening. It’s quite simple.  Lock your ta...

For whatever else Donald Trump has accomplished in his first few weeks in office, he has done something nobody thought was possible. H...

By ROBERT RECTOR If we can’t leave 2016 with a smile, perhaps a smirk will do. In that spirit, we leave you with a collection of o...

Fake news. It’s the topic du jour thanks in large part to the fact that it has been shamelessly embraced by our President-elect who ha...

By ROBERT RECTOR Some of what follows is from a column I wrote early last spring but it seems especially pertinent now as we grope thr...

By ROBERT RECTOR Understanding the subtleties of presidential polling is like trying to decipher the fine print on your cell phone bil...