Republicans can either hold firm to the conservative argument that idealizes our tradition of assimilating immigrants, or they can allow their party to be transformed by Trumpism.
America has no use for a third party, since most of us aren’t all that enamored of the two we already have. But that’s different from a truly independent presidential bid.
Kelly, McMaster and Mattis may become not so much Trump’s advisers as his enablers, applying a credible, military sheen to whatever half-informed policy he decides to implement.
The problem with the Democrats’ new agenda isn’t its language or gauziness. It’s the underlying philosophy, which misreads the Trump campaign’s core appeal.
John Kelly is the right pick to be President Trump’s first real chief of staff. But he can’t provide the vision, or the agenda, for the president.
The lesson of President Trump's breach with AG Jeff Sessions: The guy who held himself out on TV as the world's toughest CEO is surprisingly ineffectual.
Trumpism is turning out to be a mostly cautious brand of conservatism that, to the president’s credit, pulls up short of upending the established order.
Donald Trump Jr. and his siblings appear never to have learned anything their dad couldn’t teach them in the warm safety of a penthouse.
In the past six months or so, something’s different in this columnist’s inbox — it’s as if the levees of sanity and civility have at last been breached.
Twitter is exactly the right medium for the modern presidency. It’s just that Donald Trump continues to prove himself the wrong man for the job.
In the beginning there was Theodore White, the legendary observer of 20th century presidential campaigns, with his “Making of the President 1960.” Then there was Joe McGinniss’ brilliant account of the first iteration of modern campaign consulting, “The Selling of the President,” and Hunter S. Thompson
Matt Bai writes: Brace yourself now for the deluge of predictable stories about Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride during these first 100 days in office.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, on March 7, uses charts and graphs to make his case for the GOP’s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The old Superman comic books used to feature a character named Bizarro, who looked exactly like the Man of Steel, except for his blocky, Frankenstein-like features
I’ve been thinking about Barack Obama lately, and not because I suspect he ordered a tap on my phones, or directed his agents to eavesdrop through my flat-screen, although I like the idea of someone poring through hundreds of pages of transcripts of me ranting about how I can’t seem to switch channels
It was a kinder, gentler, somewhat maudlin version of his campaign speech that President Trump delivered to Congress Tuesday. Speechifying aside, though, we did learn something significant this week about the president’s governing vision, because he also previewed the budget he will send to Congress
Which is strange, because normally you wouldn’t be idly speculating about the end of a presidency barely a month after the inauguration. Certainly, in parts of the country that voted overwhelmingly for Trump, the sense is he’s just getting started.
Somehow, on Valentine’s Day, while he was trying to find a new national security adviser to replace the one he’d just fired, and while he was staring down multiple investigations over potential collusion with Russia, and while he was dealing with the fallout from having conducted missile diplomacy with
For those who thought Donald Trump would morph into a more conventional kind of president once the gravity of the job sank in, for those who kept telling themselves he would surround himself with old hands and tilt toward consensus, these can’t be reassuring days. Instead, Trump tweets about imagined
“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print,” George Orwell once wisely admonished his fellow writers. In Huxley’s vision, Postman wrote, “no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history.
Let’s start this week with a little bit of ancient history. On a Saturday in the fall of 1973, President Nixon called his attorney general, Elliot Richardson, and ordered him to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor looking into Watergate. Cox had issued a subpoena for the transcripts of Nixon
It’s inauguration week just as the Framers must have imagined it: citizenry streaming into the capital from every state to celebrate the most sober and symbolic moment in the democracy, even as the soon-to-be president tears into an American hero, fends off criticism from allies, deflects a sexual harassment
Me gustan las buenas analogías hechas con ideas del mundo inmobiliario, así que naturalmente tengo que rendirme ante la forma en la que el bloguero conservador Erick Erickson describía recientemente el frenesí legislativo de última hora en la Casa Blanca de Obama. “Obama y John Kerry”, tuiteó Erickson
Does Obama have the right in these waning days to govern like there’s no tomorrow (because, of course, there isn’t)? While I don’t always agree with Obama or his party, I happen to think he’s right about the seriousness of Russian hacking and the cost of Israeli intransigence in the Middle East.
In which the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future teach the president-elect a thing or two.
Donald Trump said a lot of things about a lot of people on his journey to the White House. He mocked a war hero for getting captured. He accused a rival’s dad of consorting with President Kennedy’s killer. He likened another opponent — soon to be a member of his Cabinet — to a child molester.