As the writer of a weekly political column in the Age of Trump (ugh), I have lately been wondering if, bereft of an idea, I might just write... Read More
It is better to have an attorney general nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate in an undoubtedly legal fashion than to have... Read More
With Democrats seizing the House and Republicans keeping the Senate, bills beyond the proverbial post-office-naming will be hard-pressed to... Read More
When employees first learned of the Google project known as Dragonfly, there was an internal uprising.It is easy to see why.... Read More
The #MeToo movement has drawn attention to much horrific male behavior and deservedly has received much coverage. The Kavanaugh hearings also... Read More
When a trade war broke out between the world's two largest economies in June, investors barely blinked. After the Federal Reserve raised... Read More
When Donald Trump won the presidency in November 2016, it was a shock to pollsters and most of the media. Many of the nation's most... Read More
Almost two years into the Trump administration, there is much to like about the overall direction that Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has... Read More
Republicans have long insisted that elections are plagued by fraud. Evidence for that view is pleasingly sparse. But there is some. Take... Read More
After spending months complaining about the disparity between the United States and other nations' duties, along with the unfair treatment of... Read More
In December 1 in Buenos Aires, US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed on a 90-day moratorium on increases... Read More
After almost nine months of speculation, President Trump on Saturday confirmed the rumors: Chief of Staff John Kelly will be leaving the... Read More
Whether the coverage provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would lead to adverse labor market consequences in the form of reduced... Read More
The Federal government's total outstanding debt is quickly approaching $21.5 trillion. Debt held by the public (that is, not including the... Read More
The 2016 election put the plight of working-class America front and center in American politics. A long-neglected and largely forgotten... Read More
he 2018 midterm elections affirmed that the deep geographic divides within the United States are here to stay. As they did in 2016, Americans... Read More
A series of tough sentencing laws in the 1970s and 1980s sent incarceration rates soaring. Congress imposed mandatory minimum sentences for... Read More
‘First, do no harm” is a well-known motto of medical professionals. If only our politicians followed it as well.Democrats and... Read More
After enduring a week of encomiums to George H.W. Bush, President Donald Trump on December 7th nominated one of his late predecessor's former... Read More
For House Democratic leaders these are the best of times and the most awkward of times.They've won control of the House after eight years in... Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency, now led by acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, has announced more... Read More
"This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil rights movement of our generation," declaimed Rep.-elect... Read More
American officials are set to indict the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, on charges of violating U.S.... Read More
Traditional conservatives and modern progressive intellectuals have had pointed, often bitter, debates in recent years over the future of... Read More
Share-price volatility is the price we pay for a tweet-driven, rather than a performance-driven, stock market. Especially when the tweeter is... Read More
Settling into a small meeting room in the seventh-floor office he inherited from Barack Obama in 2009, U.S. senator Sherrod Brown of... Read More
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard an important case, Gamble v. United States, on the Double Jeopardy Clause. The question presented is... Read More
Last week, representatives from around the world gathered to begin another round of climate negotiations in Katowice, a city in the heart of... Read More
