When people ask if I’ve ever seen anything like what’s happening today, my stock answer is 1968. We had two assassinations, anti-war protesters in the streets, cities torched and burning, and thousands of young men coming home in body...
Just months after offering himself as the voice of Republican opposition, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has been following the president around like a dog, as Donald Trump might put it, palling around with him on the golf course...
The White House had three of its judicial nominees withdraw this month—and it wasn’t because they wanted to spend more time with their families. Two were bloggers whose inflammatory and discriminatory posts caught up with them. The third was...
The conservative media got the memo: Whenever the Russia probe comes up, get outraged and say that it—as in the probe itself, not what it may be uncovering about Trump—is “worse than Watergate.” After all, that’s what Democrats have...
Public opinion can take off like a runaway train once it gets going. President Donald Trump, already polling lower than any of his predecessors in his first year, might soon be hearing the hoofbeats of history. At 32 percent...
The Republican tax plan gores elites, the Eastern establishment, and blue states. That hurts a lot of Democrats, but there are plenty of long-serving “legacy” Republicans in high-tax states who will suffer too. That’s what drew Trump consigliere Steve...
Like a pebble thrown in a pond creates widening ripples, the story of sexual harassment unfolding today began at a small dinner party organized by some law professors at American University’s Washington College of Law in the summer of...
The question was simple and direct. Did you ever discuss directly with Michael Flynn any of his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak? The answer by Flynn’s former deputy national security advisor, K.T. McFarland, was unequivocal, and — it...
WILMINGTON, North Carolina—A dozen voters assembled here for a focus group on President Trump’s first year give him credit for a good economy and a robust stock market. Having said that, they used the forum to let loose with...
Mitch McConnell says his top goal as Senate leader is to remake the judiciary, a higher priority even than tax reform. He’s off to a terrifying start. Terrifying that is, if you’re not a conservative Republican. Trump judges are getting rushed...