In case you have been living in a cloister under a media blackout — and if you have, I envy you — President Trump finally declared a “national emergency” last week, in a Rose Garden appearance that was baffling and incoherent even by his exalted...

There’s no way around it: Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon and purportedly the richest man in the world, performed an enormous civic service this past week by turning the tables on the odious David Pecker and his poisonous, Trumpified...

So far every Democrat who's running, or might be, has been subjected to withering internet hatred. What's the deal?

Will special counsel Robert Mueller indict President Trump for any of the numerous crimes the latter has plausibly committed? Almost certainly not. Will Mueller file a report with the Justice Department — likely meaning Trump’s...

Will special counsel Robert Mueller indict President Trump for any of the numerous crimes the latter has plausibly committed? Almost certainly not. Will Mueller file a report with the Justice Department — likely meaning Trump’s incoming attorney...

On Friday afternoon, the New York Times dropped what appears to be the closest thing to a smoking gun in the tortuous saga of the “Russia investigation.” I think it is wise to tread carefully here, given our universe of fact-free spin: There’s a...

If you haven’t been living in an underground cavern—and perhaps even if you have—you probably know that Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a newly-elected Democratic congresswoman from Michigan, became the focus this week of what is known in the pundit trade...

This is America’s third Christmas under Donald Trump, at least if we count the surreal, dream-state holiday season of 2016, when Trump had been elected, Barack Obama was still president and many of us were trying to pretend none of it had...

There’s considerable pathos and dramatic irony to the end of Paul Ryan’s political career — if you are able to view him from a distance, like a character in a Jonathan Franzen novel or a Netflix drama set in Norway. He’s a guy who believed he...

Well, here we are. Unbelievably enough, it’s Election Day, tentative day of judgment for the Donald Trump experiment — and for that matter the American experiment, circa 2018. You’ve read entirely too many polls and predictions and...

America, we need to talk. Somehow or other this nation has arrived at a historic crossroads, in a moment that seems quantifiably ordinary and with an election that honestly shouldn’t matter much. As historians and political scientists will tell...

In just over two weeks, the biggest midterm election in my lifetime, and possibly in anybody’s lifetime, will finally reach its decision point. Are you excited or just exhausted? Either way, this is a strange state of affairs. It may be a sign...

No one thinks Thomas L. Friedman, the lead foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, has an easy job. I wouldn’t want it. Like his closely allied counterpart at the Washington Post, David Ignatius, Friedman stands astride the interlocked...

It might be the ultimate journalistic cliché to announce that Donald Trump’s presidency is not normal. Indeed, it’s just as likely that this is what normal looks like now, and that the naked power politics of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation —...

What do we know now that we didn’t know before the grotesque carnival of Brett Kavanaugh’s appearance this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where we were treated to the spectacle of a supposedly eminent jurist and Supreme Court...