I’ve been chugging along for nine months since Donald Trump was elected, trying to make some kind of contribution to the preservation of my country. I feel like, somehow, I’ve managed to do some of my best writing in...
Read MoreGreg Sargent poses a hypothetical that isn’t really hypothetical at all: Because Trump is undermining our democratic norms and processes in so many ways, it is often easy to focus on each of them in isolation, rather than...
Read MoreChina’s ‘great wall of sand’ unifies allies in Pacific, says US naval chief And China’s island-building has also engendered a rare outbreak of foreign policy bipartisanship in Washington....
Read MoreAs early as last December, I was raising the alarm bells about the debt ceiling. In a piece called Will Trump’s OMB Director Blow Up the World?, I noted that Mick Mulvaney is a debt-ceiling truther who doesn’t think...
Read MoreFrankly, I don’t understand why anyone would have a problem with the Deep State removing this guy. Some other guy? Sure. But not this guy.
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