On Fox, Trump admits: this terrible idea was his own
In my line of sight from my office, beside stacks of books and magazines, between unplugged lamps and cigar boxes,…
Biden’s age and Trump’s legal problems are inescapable
For all the vagaries of presidential contests, we know two things about 2024: Joe Biden’s age and Donald Trump’s legal…
Donald Trump’s arraignment was a circus
The scene in Miami was somewhat less than promised today. The predicted tens of thousands of protesters were replaced instead…
The Trump indictment will be destabilizing, no matter what
As a general matter, people who are indicted and punished for absconding with classified material tend to have done one…
Mike Pence jumps on the grenade
When I interviewed Mike Pence recently, I asked him why so many people around him tell me the same thing:…
DeSantis should talk about Jeffrey Epstein tonight
Ron DeSantis’s choice to enter the presidential stakes with a Twitter Spaces conversation is unusual. Odder still is the news that…
CNN plays with fire again
CNN’s decision to host a Donald Trump town hall turned out exactly as you might have expected: a horror show that…
Liz Cheney’s anti-Trump ad helps Trump
There are two categories of people who most desperately want Donald Trump to be the Republican Party’s nominee in 2024:…
The ‘brutal’ poll that reveals the truth about Joe Biden
The latest poll from the Washington Post and ABC News sent shockwaves through America’s media over the weekend, with numbers that are absolutely dire…
Biden’s 2024 announcement is begging for the return of Trump
Joe Biden’s campaign officially launched with a video released in the early morning hours featuring a message bizarrely limited in…
The New Right is going nowhere — and knows it
It is an irony of history that the bronze Statue of Freedom which stands tall atop the US Capitol dome…
Thunderdome 2024: only Trump supporters want DeSantis to get in now
In the two months since the launch of the 2024 Thunderdome for the Republican nomination, the field has turned out…
The indictment that broke the country
It was a bright blue-skied July day in 1861, so the Washington elite decided to have a picnic and take…
The insanity of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ led America to this point
They have come from far and wide today to see the elephant in New York City. The #Resistance that promised…
The right’s two responses to Trump’s indictment
The immediate reaction to the indictment of Donald Trump by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has been a run to support…
Why Democrats shouldn’t celebrate the charges against Donald Trump
The indictment of former president Donald Trump as part of an investigation into hush money paid in 2016 to an ex porn…
Why using the military against Mexico’s cartels is catching on
“Slowly at first, then all at once” is the most famous line Ernest Hemingway never wrote, and credit its fame…
Mexico has become a failed narco-state
Over the past week, a security policy conversation that’s been taking place behind the scenes has emerged into the open.…
Can Trump’s unorthodox campaign break the mold again?
Just based on public behavior, you’d think Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis weren’t even interested in running for the same…
TikTok may be the real test of the China Select Committee
The primetime launch event for the House China Select Committee shows the bipartisan consensus that has formed in Washington on…
Thunderdome 2024: here come the Republican hopefuls
Over Presidents Day weekend, Donald J. Trump, our most beloved former president — according to him anyway — posted the…
Kamala Harris should run for Senate again in California
Here’s an idea that won’t happen but should: if Kamala Harris really wants to reset her political future — and…
A paean to the single cat lady
In recent years, Republican candidates and media figures have become increasingly critical of one portion of the population. At the…
A Republican presidential field with no Texans?
The biggest open secret in Texas politics is now public knowledge. For months, it’s been known that Ted Cruz will…
Congress’s Twitter hearings show Democrats are done with free speech
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, free speech was primarily defended by civil libertarians and the…
