When it came to a recent column about President Donald Trump’s preference for “executive time” that includes a healthy dose of cable news viewing and… Continue reading
Note to self: When it’s time to sit down and talk with my bosses about my next steps as an opinion editor and all-around-columnist guy,… Continue reading
It’s the Monday before Christmas, and my daughter, her hair tied up snugly in a bun, plops herself down in the front seat of my… Continue reading
Give thanks and say hallelujah. Our very weird year is just about in the rearview mirror. Only a handful of days remain before we hit… Continue reading
Hey, did you know that President Donald Trump can’t be found guilty of obstruction of justice? Yeah, me neither. Thank goodness that White House lawyer… Continue reading
When gun-control and gun-rights advocates clash after the latest mass shooting, you can usually count on two rhetorical chips being thrown onto the table: “What… Continue reading
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Howard Henry’s no preacher. But the prayer he uttered outside a home on Logan Street in Harrisburg on a chilly night last… Continue reading
Heading into Tuesday night’s gubernatorial election in Virginia, national Democrats badly needed a win. After dropping some serious coin in special elections in Georgia and… Continue reading
“Reports out of Texas are devastating. The people of Sutherland Springs need our prayers right now,” U.S. House Speaker Paul J. Ryan, R-Wisc., tweeted to… Continue reading
It’s the first rule of crisis communications: When you’re in the hole, the first thing you do is to stop digging. But if you’re President… Continue reading
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — President Donald Trump, who likes to denounce the “fake” news media, threw himself into the warm embrace of Fox News host Sean… Continue reading
On one level, the horror perpetrated Sunday night by lone wolf gunman Stephen Paddock, who indiscriminately sprayed gunfire across a country music festival in Las… Continue reading
On the day that Donald Trump tried to mess with America’s national religion, professional football took the knee and beat The Divider-in-Chief at his own… Continue reading
Two essays this week, by two very different authors, take us deep into the tribalism that marks our politics. Both should serve as a wake-up… Continue reading
There’s a line in Hillary Clinton’s new memoir of the 2016 campaign that may be among the most searingly honest utterances of her long career… Continue reading
Quite beyond being morally repugnant and an offense to human decency, the Trump White House’s announcement Tuesday that it’s rescinding the “Deferred Action for Childhood… Continue reading
Earlier this month, at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., President Donald Trump looked solemnly into the camera, and declared that America’s opioid epidemic was… Continue reading
It’s already pretty clear that, in the Trump White House, the left hand often doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. Now we have… Continue reading
ATHENS, Ga. - All that’s left of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is the steeple. The red brick is faded and the windows are boarded up.… Continue reading
OUTSIDE WINCHESTER, Va. - We were driving up Interstate 81 last Sunday afternoon, the radio on, the sun setting into the hills, when we passed… Continue reading
