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The Real Constitutional Crisis May. 12, 2017
President Trump firing James Comey as Director of the FBI is not a constitutional crisis. The presid... Read More
Trump's Escape From Comey Mess May. 12, 2017
President Donald Trump has obeyed the law since taking the oath of office. That is a better record t... Read More
You Want Checks and Balances? Stop Ignoring the Constitution When You're in Power May. 12, 2017
"Trump has an authoritarian impulse," political scientist and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer tw... Read More
Past Time to End This Democratic Witch Hunt May. 12, 2017
I don't deny that President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey was handled poorly, but it pa... Read More
Is the US on the Path to French-style Economic Sclerosis? May. 11, 2017
There is a lot of debate over President Donald Trump's record after his first 100-plus days in offic... Read More
Trump Makes Himself Look Guilty May. 11, 2017
Among Donald Trump's many shortcomings are the vast amount of history he doesn't know and the little... Read More
Repeal Bill Doesn't Repeal Statutory Basis of Abortifacient Mandate May. 10, 2017
The Obamacare repeal bill the Republican-controlled House passed last week — the American Heal... Read More
Comey Is Gone, and the Worst Is Yet to Come May. 10, 2017
The news that President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey is not cause for celebration... Read More
Trump Fires Away -- Again May. 10, 2017
WASHINGTON — Washington is buzzing with talk of Watergate. In a town nostalgic for the days wh... Read More
Nixon and Trump, Then and Now May. 09, 2017
For two years, this writer has been consumed by two subjects. First, the presidency of Richard Nixon... Read More
States in Shock as Republicans Unleash Health Care Chaos May. 09, 2017
Social desperation tends to land on the doorsteps of the governments closest to the people. Happily ... Read More
President Trump's Secret Weapon May. 09, 2017
He can't go 10 minutes without saying something — let's be diplomatic here and call it ... pro... Read More
I Wrote a Book in a Difficult Time May. 08, 2017
From time to time, Creators, the company I write for, gets out a book of my columns. The most recent... Read More
Donald Trump's Death Panels May. 08, 2017
The real death panels are coming. Back in 2009, during the shrill hours of debate over the Affordabl... Read More
On Churches in Politics, Trump Does ... Nothing May. 07, 2017
With hundreds of executive branch jobs yet to be filled, the Trump administration needs a lot of peo... Read More
Thank You, Stephen Colbert May. 05, 2017
I oppose the push to remove "The Late Show" comedian Stephen Colbert from the air because of his obs... Read More
Health Care Promises Will Be Hard to Keep May. 05, 2017
President Donald Trump has achieved his first major legislative success this week with the passage o... Read More
The Hillary Interview: Cold Porridge May. 05, 2017
Watching Hillary Clinton answer questions from Christiane Amanpour for 44 minutes is not exactly tor... Read More
Trump and American History: The Wrong North Star May. 05, 2017
"I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War." — Presi... Read More
