Trump is our present. But Trumpism is our future. Read More
It is highly unlikely that Donald Trump knows or cares anything about poetry, but just in case he does, he should know that T.S. Eliot was... Read More
There is now no excuse for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to ask to interview President Trump. Read More
Rudy Giuliani's instant meme is even worse than it looked at first. Read More
All the Special Counsel needs, in order to charge a subject of an investigation with lying to a prosecutor, is a single witnesses willing to... Read More
Suburban mothers have been coveted voters since the 1990s, but now they're running for office. Read More
Democrats are leaving their party more in sorrow than in anger, but leaving it they are, sickened by the Democratic Party's hard left turn.... Read More
Historically, we’ve failed to see tipping points until too late. Read More
The great engine of American capitalism is once again firing on all cylinders, as shown by the 4.1 percent annualized growth of America's... Read More
Taxpayers should be worried that they are paying inflated prices to Amazon Read More
Furious and unflinching, an NRA enemy, an accused crisis actor, and a high-school grad trying to figure out what's next. Read More
Ah, men! This is the ultimate exclamation of women, frustrated, puzzled and baffled by the other half of the human race, forever a riddle... Read More
With testimony from the president’s top lawyer, the special counsel is in no position to claim he needs to speak with Trump. Read More
We've seen plenty of Trump critics -- most recently Admiral William McRaven -- call out what they see as the President's "McCarthy-era... Read More
The extent to which senior Obama administration officials facilitated anti-Trump political opposition research efforts seems to grow every... Read More
Our nation is divided in many ways, and one of the most important chasms involves the question of whether President Trump poses a threat to... Read More
The expression “where there is smoke, there is fire” appears to date to 43 B.C., but it sure applies to a decision by District... Read More
Donald Trump’s racial animus had long been established before he was elected president. Read More
No one is surprised that Omarosa Manigault Newman’s new tell-all book is gossipy, salacious, and full of questionable or false... Read More
If the issue is the need for generational change, there might be a strong argument, but if the goal is to eliminate the bogeyman whom the GOP... Read More
In “Where Did You Get That Number?” (Simon & Schuster), out Tuesday, Salvanto explains the lessons pollsters learned that... Read More
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Truth isn’t truth. Read More
Take a wild guess what country is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan? No, no, no,... Read More
If we want to solve climate change, there's no other option. Read More
Fact checkers, like others who work in media, are competing for their share of the dwindling American attention span. Read More
President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, made that unintentional confession of method and purpose Sunday on "Meet the Press." From the... Read More
Since the surprise announcement of his indictment and guilty plea on Oct. 30, 2017, the short-term, volunteer Trump foreign policy adviser... Read More
Cohen provides a good reminder of how the alleged shady behavior, financial and otherwise, of the Trump circle is both hyper-local and... Read More
The real winner for markets, though, will be gridlock, in which no major legislation gets passed. And that’s bullish for stocks. Why... Read More
The death yesterday of Kofi Annan at the age of 80 will be marked with sadness around the world including here in New York where, between... Read More
With control of both the House and the Senate in play on Election Day 2018, one unlikely state could prove pivotal: Minnesota. Known as a stubbornly Democratic state—Minnesota hasn’t voted Republican in a presidential election since 1972—it is sometimes written off by Republicans. The state has produced a roster of famously progressive politicians, from Hubert Humphrey and Walter Read More
Part 3 in a seriesThe upcoming midterm races have captured national attention as both parties look to prove that voters are coming out to support their agenda and send a message to President Trump—in Democrats’ case, a stern one. Not surprisingly, then, both parties say that the president is an asset in their efforts to hold and gain seats, and that a visit from him to their states wil Read More
With 80 days to go before the midterm elections, the conventional wisdom is that the Republicans will be hard-pressed to hold their majority in the House. However, all the wind is not in Republicans’ faces. There are countervailing trends at work, too, including these eight. Read More
