Everyone is trying to figure out what prompted the Democrats to surrender and end the government shutdown, giving Trump a big win just days after their biggest victory in years. They had the Republicans on the run—why would they fold? It wasn’t the flight delays or the SNAP fight....
Is it a case of mixed messages sent by voters? Democrats need to pitch progressive policies and challenge capitalism to reach younger voters, as New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is doing. And they must project a seriousness of purpose about national security and the economy, as the governors-elect...
Where we go next in Trump’s acquisition of power is best summed up by one of the first rules of real estate: You don’t modernize a rental. Does anybody really think Trump is building a humungous ballroom for J.D. Vance? The ostentatious ‘renovation’ of the East Wing currently underway,...
Like all things Trumpian, it’s about as subtle as a wrecking ball: A lavish ballroom, bigger than a football field, with aspirations of Versailles and shades of Caesars Palace. Visitors to the Oval Office in recent months have been shown models of President Trump’s plans for the East Wing;...
Democrats say they had no choice. After eight months of getting flattened by Trump on policy and programs at home and abroad with no sound counter message, they couldn’t just roll over again. (Well, maybe they could have. But they didn’t!) I wasn’t sure they picked the right fight....
Knowing that the Trump administration is at home with the way mobsters talk, it’s fair to say that DJT is getting ready to bag a big one. A big fish. A big Filet-o-Fish, in his favorite fast food terms. The word on the street is that former FBI director...
The White House is searching for a magic needle to thread the inevitable conflict between MAHA priorities and broader public health concerns now that RFK Jr. has run roughshod over people’s ability to get the Covid-19 vaccine this fall. Though Trump’s HHS Director and his acolytes falsely insist that...
The District of Columbia is on tenterhooks, wondering what else Mad King Trump might do to further erode home rule and use America’s capital city to acclimate the country to military occupation. Restrictive gun laws are no longer enforced, and FBI agents have been surged into the Capitol to...
