The case for proroguing Congress
It’s time for Donald Trump to take a leaf from Boris Johnson, for the master to take tuition from his…
The Mueller report’s findings could actually help Democrats in 2020
In determining that Donald Trump did not engage in secret collusion with Russia, Robert Mueller may well have done Democrats…
Is Mitt Romney the NeverTrumpers’ great hope?
Is Mitt Romney the mouse that roared? Or does he pose a real threat to President Trump? In his Washington Post op-ed,…
George H.W. Bush, the last great liberal Republican
George H.W. Bush, who died on Friday at the age of 94, oversaw the end of the cold war. Together…
After losing the House, Trump will have more to worry about than CNN reporters
If Trump cannot handle the press corps without blowing his top, it’s an open question whether he can cope with the House Democrats getting up in his grill on a daily basis
How Democrat success in the midterms could help Trump
Today’s midterm election is bound to put a bit of swagger back into the steps of Democrats. If polls are…
Trump’s presidency has imploded – in less than two years
This is the beginning of the end of the Donald Trump presidency. The double whammy of Michael Cohen, his former…
Brett Kavanaugh is a Republican’s dream Supreme Court Justice
After reciting the usual homilies about the need to interpret the American Constitution as it was written, President Trump appeared…
Donald Trump’s inability to care what his critics think is paying off
Donald Trump is becoming a restaurant critic. This morning he weighed in on the Red Hen restaurant, which is located…
How splitting up families gave Trump the biggest crisis of his presidency
For the Democrats, the mounting furore over forcibly separating children from their parents at the border offers a golden opportunity…
James Comey is a man obsessed with his own myth
Oh, dear. The myth that James Comey has sedulously cultivated of himself—the ascetic warrior for truth, the vigilant sentinel of…
Donald Trump’s dictator complex
The reviews are coming in for Donald Trump’s performance in Singapore and they aren’t pretty. Nicholas Kristof of the New…
Donald Trump goes on the warpath with North Korea
So much for the “World Peace” that Donald Trump bragged he would create at the June 12th Singapore summit. In…
The sorry state of Trump’s affairs
Washington, DC It was a petulant Donald Trump who appeared at a White House press briefing on Tuesday with the…
Sorry, Boris, President Trump doesn’t have an Iran plan
Washington, DC. With Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, American foreign policy is getting radioactive. “We…
Are we really in the ‘last phase of the Trump Presidency’?
It’s shrinking. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll indicates that the Democrats’ edge over the Republicans in the forthcoming midterm election…
Is Trump the Neville Chamberlain of our time?
So Britain is responsible for staging the Syrian gas attack? According to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov:…
Donald Trump’s love-in with Putin comes to an abrupt halt
In his inimitable fashion, President Trump has put Russia on notice that the era of playing kissy-face with the Kremlin…
Donald Trump turns on Putin
It seems like only yesterday Donald Trump was buttering up Vladimir Putin. His congratulations on Putin’s victory and failure to…
Donald Trump’s ‘bimbo eruptions’ are mounting
Bimbo eruptions is the term that Betsey Wright, Bill Clinton’s longtime gubernatorial aide, coined to describe the multifarious women who…