American Politics

Among Trump’s many signature boasts during the 2016 campaign, one of his most personally treasured may have been his plans to involve CEOs and [...]

As easy as it would be to assume that this article refers to the revolving door of White House staff whose steady egress continues to embarrass Donald J. [...]

You’ve got to love an inevitability. Ever since the media began to seize on the “President Steve Bannon” jokes, the writing has been on [...]

It must almost be regarded as a sort of skill for Donald Trump to fail to say things in the particular manner he does. When violence broke out at a white [...]

Of late, I’ve been asked to talk a little about international sanctions, specifically those currently targeting Russia. With Congress having recently [...]

The Trump White House, obsessed with distinctiveness, achievement, and record-setting, yesterday attempted the bold feat of “earliest firing of an [...]

Last night, in the wake of the “skinny repeal” bill’s narrow defeat, Mitch McConnell gave a speech, still apparently stunned by his near [...]

In the first five years after its passing in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare) was targeted for repeal by House Republicans no fewer than [...]

A few days ago, I stumbled across alarming headlines announcing that Trump had ordered military personnel to support his political agenda. Reading the [...]

…you have any idea of how catapulting Texas back to the modern Stone Age will benefit you in any way? That’s Texas governor Greg Abbott, by the [...]