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How Trump thinks hitting Mexico and Canada with tariffs is supposed to solve America's drug problem is a mystery
A well-oiled, systematic, authoritarian machine they aren't — but they can still do a whole lot of damage
Trump will never face prosecution, but his deranged obsession with Jan. 6 is massively unpopular
Republicans capitulated on Pete Hegseth, though they knew better. Now come the most noxious nominees of all
Trump thinks he won by talking about the economy — and now he gets to wreck it and enrich his billionaire pals
Republicans scramble to defend Donald Trump's shocking decision to pardon nearly 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters
Republicans in Congress are so far behind in crafting a legislative agenda
Donald Trump has no idea what the billionaire tech titans suddenly flocking to his side are really after
People who refuse to do anything about the real crisis we're facing, climate change, pounce straight to punishment
Many people still don't have the stomach to follow politics these days after the disappointment of the last election and the return of the Trump...
Four years ago today while I watched on television as Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol during the joint session of Congress to stop the...
After a brief hiatus for the holidays, the circus is back in Washington, D.C., and the high-wire act of Speaker Mike Johnson and the Flying...
A couple of days after Christmas, Donald Trump posted something very odd, even by his standards. He accidentally posted a personal text to his BFF,...
One of the more annoying conceits of the MAGA cult is its insistence that Donald Trump is some kind of religious figure dedicated to bringing world...
Back in 2016, the whole country was left in shock when celebrity businessman Donald Trump managed to take over the Republican Party and win the...
President-elect Trump held his first press conference since the election this week and seemed surprised that he is suddenly so popular with all the...
In May of 2023, the world watched as Charles III was crowned King of England after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away at the age of 96....
One of the most famous episodes in the Watergate saga 50 years ago was when CBS News reporter Daniel Schorr got a hold of Richard Nixon's "enemies...
If it feels as though the new Trump administration is taking shape at warp speed, that's because it is. It's unusual for an incoming administration...
Last month's presidential election was a disappointment, to say the least. Ever since then, it's felt as if the air has just been slowly leaking...
Last February, as Donald Trump was running for the Republican presidential nomination, he appeared at SneakerCon in Philadelphia to debut his...
There are a thousand election hot takes and post-mortems floating around these days and I'm sure we'll soon come to some consensus about what drove...
Once upon a time, there was a Trump toadie who wrote a fatuous children's book about a good king being persecuted by an evil queen named Hillary...
Many Americans were sorely disappointed this week when special prosecutor Jack Smith decided to drag up and withdraw the Jan. 6 indictment and the...
A couple of days after the election this year I wrote that I thought a lot of the anti-incumbent movement these past couple of years had to do with...
Contrary to his customary bragging that he won the election in an unprecedented landslide, President Donald Trump's percentage of the popular vote...
During the campaign, you may recall Donald Trump waxing on interminably during "the weave" about the time he watched Elon Musk's picture-perfect...
I recently saw the movie "The Apprentice" about the relationship between Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn, the notorious lawyer who was...
Now that we've had a chance to catch our breath a little bit and get through the grieving process over last Tuesday's election, the inevitable...
Tomorrow is Election Day, the last day of voting in this tumultuous 2024 campaign. What a long, strange trip it's been. Just a year ago, Florida...
In front of an enormous crowd of 75,000 people last night, Kamala Harris gave what was billed as her "closing argument" on the Ellipse, the site of...
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent out a statement this week drawing attention to the fact that...
Before Donald Trump was considered nothing more than a circus sideshow, some of us noted during the 2015 GOP presidential primaries that his...
The 2024 election is just a little over two weeks away now and most Democrats are down to their last nerve with worry. This is nothing new, of...
We have officially entered the manic stage of the presidential election in which the candidates are suddenly everywhere. At least Kamala Harris is...
Is Donald Trump losing it for real this time? That's a question being asked and answered all over social media and cable news this week in the wake...
In every losing campaign's postmortem, the analysts insist that the candidate should have gone where he or she did not. There were many complaints ...
Exactly eight years ago this week, the Obama administration formally accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic National...
I happened to spend some time with a highly intelligent 17-year-old over the weekend who's taking AP Government and is keenly interested in the...
I once wrote that Liz Cheney was the most dangerous woman in America. I thought she could easily be the nominee in 2024 and believed that she'd be...
Writing about a debate on the morning after always feels more like theater criticism than political analysis. How did they look, how did they...
I don't normally pay too much attention to the vice presidential debate during a presidential election campaign because they tend not to matter all...
As a politician, Donald Trump has always exhibited a very creepy form of paternalism. He often says things like "No one has done as much for the...
Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans got a little bit of good news over the weekend with some highly respected polls coming in showing that Kamala...
All of the American media was atwitter on Thursday afternoon from rumors that CNN was going to release a bombshell report about North Carolina Lt....
There's been a lot going on this week so you may have missed Donald Trump introducing his latest business venture on Monday. You read that right....
If you feel as if American politics have taken yet another deep dive into the Trump show maelstrom, you aren't alone. This past week has been a...
Despite the ongoing excessive whining in the press about Kamala Harris not doing interviews and MAGA's laughable insistence that Trump won the...
According to the New York Times/Siena poll released over the weekend, about 28% of people said they needed to learn more about Vice President...
After Donald Trump once again demonstrated his monumental ignorance with his answer to a question about child care at the New York Economic Club...