If you were watching cable news over the weekend, you might have been tempted to think that, with the defeat-for-now of healthcare reform, President Donald… Continue reading
Governments and legislative bodies often do profoundly stupid things. But lately, it seems like we’ve been living through a veritable bumper crop of dumb. There’s… Continue reading
There’s this disturbing scene early on in the 1990 Cold War thriller “The Hunt for Red October.” A bunch of Soviet sailors have just decided… Continue reading
It’s taken seven years, but Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration are finally having their “If you like your health care plan you can keep… Continue reading
After his speech to a joint session of Congress last week, where President Donald Trump successfully managed to read, from a teleprompter, a speech that… Continue reading
As he wrapped up his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump offered a bromide to a fractured… Continue reading
Given the opportunity last week to respond to a rash of anti-Semitic incidents across the country, President Donald Trump gave the kind of thoughtful, considered… Continue reading
During last year’s presidential campaign, my old friend and colleague Salena Zito, writing in The Atlantic, made national headlines when she observed that the reporters… Continue reading
One of the great advantages of youth is that it’s a time to make mistakes, say silly stuff you might regret later, and generally experiment… Continue reading
No matter how the Ninth Circuit rules on President Donald Trump’s poorly conceived and even more poorly executed ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries,… Continue reading
During her second debate with Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton took some serious heat for warning that the Republican’s then-proposed ban on Muslims may well… Continue reading
So this is the funhouse mirror of a White House that the American public will be treated to for the next four years. The day… Continue reading
As he took the oath of office and became America’s 45th president Friday, Donald John Trump vowed to put “America first” as he embarked on… Continue reading
On Friday, at noon, Donald J. Trump will put his hand on a Bible, recite the oath of office administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice… Continue reading
Just nine days before becoming Leader of the Free World, President-elect Donald Trump wasn’t talking about economic policy. He wasn’t talking about global security or… Continue reading
Acclaimed actor Meryl Streep lit up social media during Sunday’s Golden Globe awards in an explicitly political speech, where she harshly criticized President-elect Donald Trump… Continue reading
In October 1995, the city of Chicago was the wettest and coldest place I’d visited yet. I was out for a long weekend to visit… Continue reading
Another year, another fake ‘War on Christmas’ is almost in the books. On Sunday morning, a great many of us will wake up, pad quietly… Continue reading
Meet Megan Hicks, sore loser. The Philadelphian was camped on a bench in the Pennsylvania state Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg on Monday morning, waiting, like… Continue reading
If there was ever a case custom-made for the death penalty, it’s that of Dylann Roof, the self-described white supremacist who was convicted Thursday of… Continue reading
