Cathy McMorris Rodgers has proved that she is nothing more than a puppet dancing on strings. Those strings are being pulled by the leadership of the tea party. They include people like David and ...

In the movie spoof “This Is Spinal Tap,” the band members knew their days were numbered when they got second billing to a puppet show. “Oh no! ” wailed their manager. “If I told them once, I told them ...

“Watch me dance, I’m a puppet,” Thom Yorke commands in “Up on the Ladder,” from Radiohead’s In Rainbows bonus disc. “You can almost see the string.” Given the notoriously herky-jerk movements of the ...

I CAN’T stop thinking Theresa May had the wrong song in her mad dance entrance at the Tory Party conference. Surely Sandie Shaw and Puppet on a String would have been better. Her hands moved as if she ...