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Various left-wing writers (some of them nominally Republican) have been salivating over the prospects of a GOP civil war. Read More
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He's about to metamorphose from world's most powerful human to financially and legally challenged pariah. His only ally? The mob. Read More
Trump made a colossal tactical blunder by telling his supporters to fight vote fraud in the streets. That led to last week's excesses, and... Read More
Parler's gone for now, the victim of a conspiracy to silence, but it will return. The fascists can try, but they can't shut us up forever.... Read More
David Gergen writes that the new, 7-feet-tall fence now surrounding the Capitol should eventually find a home in the Smithsonian. Pieces of... Read More
The decision caps the outgoing administration's efforts to build a regional defense arrangement to counter Iran. Read More
More than reality TV, the Trump presidency resembled an antihero drama. Here's what we might expect next. Read More
The Biden stimulus is crammed with goodies but makes no economic sense. Read More
President-elect Joe Biden’s call to “build back better” after the pandemic is an invitation to renovate America’s... Read More
President Trump entered office in 2017 as a political wrecking ball. He leaves the presidency Wednesday as an even bigger wrecking ball. In... Read More
After Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account, earlier this month, the reactions were quick, ubiquitous, and mostly... Read More
Big Tech, social media, and the press used the violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 as a pretext to purge their platforms of conservative... Read More
Historian Laura Beers puts a growing number of references to George Orwell by prominent US Republicans in context, writing that while Orwell... Read More
The American political and legal systems are working just fine, despite a few hiccups. Meanwhile, American corporations are depriving... Read More
November’s election revealed that the class realignment of our two parties is solidifying. Democrats have increasingly emerged as the... Read More
The New Deal. The Interstate Highway System. The Great Society. When our nation’s leaders aim high the names of their accomplishments... Read More
By keeping American aims limited, Trump avoided his predecessors' pitfalls while still advancing American interests in the Middle East. Read More
The conflict between neoconservatives and the Trump base sets up a major battle for which faction will control the Republican Party in the... Read More
Because so many of us could use some words of optimism right now, here are mine: Joe Biden will make a... Read More
As the political right struggles to regroup after the horrible events at the U.S. Capitol, it should learn from the masters. The left has a... Read More
President Donald Trump is cruising toward history as the first president to be impeached twice. And no matter what you may hear about... Read More
President Trump was impeached yesterday by a mostly party-line vote. Ten House Republicans did cross the picket line to back the Democratic... Read More
My father was a psychiatrist. Some also used to refer to him as a “Renaissance man” since he taught philosophy and was a trained... Read More
If you thought help for the coronavirus was on the way, think again. President-elect Joe Biden's plan to provide economic relief is going to... Read More
Each of the last seven years has been among the 10 warmest on record. The United Nations warns rightly we are not doing enough to deal with... Read More
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaigns in Nazareth for the Arab vote. Read More
What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it was a Parthian shot to discredit President Trump’s supporters. Read More
Republican arguments against impeachment misunderstand history, the intentions of the Founding Fathers and the law. Read More
Big Tech’s coordinated silencing of conservative voices, including President Trump’s, signals a crossing of the Rubicon in the... Read More
After spending the last five years talking to avid Trump supporters, CNN's Alisyn Camerota writes it is time to tune out the President's... Read More
The term is being casually flung about, with little distinction between wrong-headed lawmakers and the rioters themselves. Read More
It's not just Trump — some on the right have supported violence for years now; the party has built its power on them. Read More
Fuhgeddaboudism demands that we erase context and develop amnesia for not only history but for what happened every night last summer. Read More
Or his ability to help Americans will be doomed from the start. Read More
The economy was bad, and the White House planned to go big. On the day the mammoth $800 billion Recovery Act became law, however, the new... Read More
It's also worth remembering that the success of candidates like Raphael Warnock is a product of years of voter engagement Read More
Could the Republican party mandarins, gathering once again in a mythical 'smoke-filled room', rig the 2024 primaries to stop Trump? Read More
The president refuses to distance himself from the election lies that motivated the Capitol riot. Read More
If you’ve ever wondered why America needs the Electoral College, the state-by-state process for electing a president, look no further... Read More
Trump and his mob believe they'll never pay the piper Read More
Once-secret documents will show Steele told FBI he leaked Russia collusion narrative to counteract Clinton email scandal. Read More
In its moment of crisis, the American republic can find warnings but also inspiration in the past. Read More
Last Dec. 7, the greatest aviator in American history ascended into the heavens. On Friday, joined by my family on Air Force Two, it will be... Read More
As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? Read More
As always, approach all stories that headline the word “study” with some caution. Newsweek’s report on a new... Read More
Rollout would also take aim at vaccine skepticism and misinformation Read More
Hatred is at an all-time high in Washington. Will Congress step in to become the arbiters of truth? Read More
By nearly every standard we can measure in a democracy, President Trump will leave office next week as a disastrous failure. His rejection by... Read More
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there they go again. Frantic to extinguish any chance Donald Trump will ever again run for office,... Read More
As President Trump prepares to exit the White House, his ideas, including falsehoods and conspiracy theories, continue to exert a... Read More
Anti-Trump conservatives think they are poised to take back the Republican Party after he leaves office. They are sorely mistaken. Read More
Biden's foreign policy is rooted in the mythology of the Cold War, when there was an antithetical global adversary in the Soviet... Read More
Trump's most fervid lapdog is in a class of his own. Read More
Israel needs to prepare for this new reality where its ability to combat Iranian forces and proxy groups is concerned. Read More
The best and worst campuses for free speech, based on a survey of 20,000 students.
Among the 232 votes in the House of Representatives to impeach Donald Trump a second time were 10 cast by Republicans -- and now the GOP has a messy church fight on its hands. That’s because one of the 10 breaking ranks was Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who chairs the GOP conference. The immediate question for House Republicans is whether Cheney should remain in that post after voting to impeach Tr Read More
Congressional Democrats’ rush toward impeachment has put Joe Biden in a difficult position before he’s even taken the oath of office. Does he follow the desires of his fellow Democratic Party leaders to punish Donald Trump for stirring up an angry mob that ran amok at the U.S. Capitol? Or does Biden heed his own oft-repeated campaign promise to weigh the desires of those Americans who voted ag Read More
Almost two years ago, Rush Limbaugh call screener James Golden (also known as “Bo Snerdley”) and I met with a major Republican donor who claimed to be interested in supporting our organization, New Journey PAC. He expressed interest in one of our warnings — that Georgia would turn blue in 2020. More importantly, the donor wanted to know how to prevent this catastrophe. James and I made th Read More