Disruptive. That's a good word to describe Donald Trump's presidential candidacy, and to describe the sometimes ramshackle Republican... Read More
There were two enormous problems with Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention: too much darkness, not enough... Read More
Donald Trump needed to give the speech of his life–he did that, and much more. He laid out an inspiring American Manifesto for our... Read More
The evidence shows Trump himself, and certainly the GOP, wants to return women to a subservient past. Read More
Dark. Dystopian. Dangerous. Email recaps, cable chatter and social media channels are filled this morning with lurid descriptions... Read More
Democrats close to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign signaled strongly Thursday that she would choose Senator Tim Kaine of... Read More
âAâ¯vote for anyone other than Donald Trump in November is a vote for Hillary, the governor of Wisconsin has spent the... Read More
Sorry, I was on Twitter. I felt it was necessary to dispel the widely-held myth, adored by #NeverTrumpers, that somehow attacking Trump... Read More
The massacre of children and teachers in Newtown, Conn., didn’t do it. Neither did the mass murder of worshipers in Charleston, S.C.,... Read More
The business cycle is peaking, with no interest-rate increase. Read More
The increasingly authoritarian president knows that the failed coup had underlying causes that won't go away. Read More
In a lengthy and folksy capstone to an unusually contentious national political convention, Donald J. Trump accomplished Thursday night what... Read More
There's always been a disconnect between what pundits and political insiders hear when Donald Trump speaks and what rank-and-file Republicans... Read More
The Republican National Convention wasn't a complete disaster, but only because Mike Pence showed signs of being a more able running mate... Read More
The Republican National Convention came to a close on Thursday night after a dramatic week marred by a plagiarism controversy involving... Read More
His speech wasn’t eloquent or lofty, but it was powerful. Read More
I am your voice … the mystical union of leader and nation. Really, that refrain is the essence of Trump’s authoritarian... Read More
For Tim Hagan, who’s been on top of Democratic Party politics in Cuyahoga County for more than four decades, Donald Trump’s... Read More
The main purpose of the modern political convention is to produce four days of televised propaganda. The subsidiary function, now that... Read More
Ted Cruz essentially gave a career-ending speech at the GOP convention on Wednesday night. Cruz's speech was a slap in the face to GOP... Read More
The Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump, has chosen this week to unmask himself as a de facto agent of Russian President... Read More
Donald Trump’s formal nomination as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate appears to have induced mass hysteria among... Read More
Hillary Clinton and the Democrats should be worried.Why? Because Donald Trump delivered Thursday night and did what he needed to do. No, he... Read More
The Republican Convention opened with a distraught mother, tears in her eyes, saying something palpably outrageous: “I blame Hillary... Read More
Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka may have brought down the house, but the most intriguing, original, and ultimately most optimistic... Read More
Donald Trump will leave Ohio after a week-long convention without the support of its Republican governor, an integral figure within a state... Read More
It’s 2016, and we’re rewriting the 1990s. Monica Lewinsky has transformed herself from the butt of a joke into an antibullying... Read More
There are dangerous signs that the U.S. is turning its back on the principles of a free and open society that fostered the nation’s... Read More
Donald Trump had a big job to do Thursday night, but of course big jobs are what he does for a living — so it’s really no... Read More
THESE ARE anxious times in America. Despite a steadily, if slowly, growing economy and the absence of a major war, people remain troubled by... Read More
Some of the Democrats in the media and without seem to be all heart. They’re worried that the Republicans are ruining their convention... Read More
MUCH is unknown about the attempted military coup in Turkey on the night of July 15th. Why was it botched so badly? How far up the ranks did... Read More
CLEVELAND — In a lengthy and folksy capstone to an unusually contentious national political convention, Donald J. Trump accomplished Thursday night what three previous days of Republican backbiting, missteps, recriminations, and other speeches had not: Forcefully making the case to disaffected Americans that if he is elected president, they will have an ally in Washington. Read More
It’s no secret that political journalists and analysts sometimes overstate the importance of campaign events. Even the most careful among them can prematurely proclaim that a debate, speech, gaffe or good fundraising number is a “turning point” or a “game changer” -- only for the supposedly pivotal development to be forgotten in short order. That being said, this Read More
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman isn’t skipping the Republican convention here this week, where Donald Trump will become his party’s nominee for president, but he isn’t exactly participating either. Read More
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