Note: this is the first of a series of Toteboard post-election reflections. Some thirty years ago, a friend was speaking candidly about...

(HELP US MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT!) Well, the election is tomorrow, and we’ll know in a day, or a few days (or a few weeks), whether or...

So why is this election night different from all other election nights? Yes, the Toteboard is intentionally invoking the trope for the...

In honor of the college students who are taking midterm exams on campuses all over the country (thanks to their morally compromised...

Sixty-odd years ago, an old-time radio “singing comic” and former vaudevillian named Orville “Andy” Andrews reinvented himself as the...

The election is exactly four weeks away, the vice-presidential debate is coming tomorrow, and it’s time for an update on the state of the...

As people of sound mind try to shake off the shell-shock of last night’s “debate” and process what this all means for the election, and for

The election is exactly two months away today, and the upcoming Labor Day weekend marks the beginning of the unofficial campaign season....

With the entire world hip deep in covid-19, everyone’s Netflix queue entirely exhausted by now, and family members fighting over who gets...

In its first entry of the 2020 primary season, Herman’s Toteboard began the new year by observing the that “the race seems to have...

Well, if Iowa and New Hampshire were supposed to establish some clarity in the national race, it should be pretty clear by now that they...

OK, Iowa is behind us, the votes are still not fully tabulated, New Hampshire is a couple of days away, and things are weird. And that’s...

OK, the voting is about to begin, and just maybe a little bit of order will soon emerge from the chaos. Or maybe not. There is a way in...

It is now a new year, the Iowa caucuses are only a few weeks away, and that means it’s time for Herman’s Toteboard to end its year-long...

Originally published June 25, 2016 Poor Hillary. She labors on the first draft of universal health care during her husband’s presidency,...