Never before has a president ignored such a clear national security threat President Trump speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Danang, Vitenam, on Nov. 11, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Agence France Presse via Getty Images) By Ben Cardin, from The Washington Post, January 10 at 9:06 AM   For the better part of 20 years, Russian President […]

Soviet dictators had two favorite tools for neutralizing critics and political opponents. Such people were either simply labeled criminal or mentally ill, which disqualified the opponents’ opinions and justified their confinement. There was no need to consider the questions they raised and thus lend them stature, and there was no shortage of judges willing to […]

We’re seeing institutions start to waver as constraints to Trump’s impulses President Trump with Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony in Quantico, Va., on Dec. 15. (Evan Vucci/AP) By Philip Bump, The Washington Post, January 5 at 5:56 PM Of the various revelations littered throughout the interview President Trump gave The […]

The Republicans’ Fake Investigations By GLENN R. SIMPSON and PETER FRITSCH, from The New York Times, JAN. 2, 2018 CreditHarry Campbell A generation ago, Republicans sought to protect President Richard Nixon by urging the Senate Watergate committee to look at supposed wrongdoing by Democrats in previous elections. The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would […]

How Not to Impeach By GREG WEINER, The New York Times, JAN. 1, 2018 A billboard calling for the impeachment of President Trump was on display in Times Square in December.CreditJustin Lane/European Pressphoto Agency WORCESTER, Mass. — With Democratic control of Congress after 2018 increasingly plausible, those who most intensely seek the impeachment of President Trump are […]

The Toxic Loyalty of Trump’s Hardcore Zealots They’ve excused his winking at neo-Nazis and his support of an accused child molester. Is there anything—anything—that would make Trump’s die-hards leave his personality cult? JARED YATES SEXTON, from The Daily Beast, 12.31.17 9:30 PM ET The speech may have been all about “American Carnage.” But the inauguration of Donald […]

A storm is gathering President Trump speaks in Pensacola, Fla., on Dec. 8. (Dan Anderson/Anderso/Epa-Efe/Rex/Shutterstock) By Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post, December 28 at 7:50 PM A storm is gathering, and there is every reason to believe that 2018 will be the most consequential political year of our lives. The reckoning upon us follows a year […]

A ‘coup in America?’ Fox News escalates anti-Mueller rhetoric. By Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post, December 18 at 6:37 AM   President Trump and his supporters at Fox News have used many words to describe the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into the possible collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives to influence […]

A president who’d all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama’s presidential library or to shine George W. Bush’s shoes: Our view The Editorial Board, USA TODAY, 7:30 p.m. ET Dec. 12, 2017   With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for […]

The attacks on Mueller push us closer to the precipice House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) questions FBI Director Christopher A. Wray during a House Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 7. (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press) By E.J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post, December 10 at 7:31 PM Our democratic republic is in […]