Congress
Was King Charles’s Congress speech a success?
President Trump lavished praise upon King Charles from the Oval Office at the outset of his four-day state visit to…
The King’s speech: disagreement should not become divorce
The King’s address to Congress was a rare and authoritative statement of national and international interest, delivered from a position…
Congress needs an ethics overhaul: Anna Paulina Luna
Washington’s problems are not hidden. Many of them simply go unaddressed. On Capitol Hill, “open secrets” persist because Congress has…
Trump’s presence won’t sway the Supreme Court
For the first time in memory – and perhaps in history – an American president has attended a Supreme Court…
Why every president ignores Congress on war
Is there a plausible legal basis for going to war with Iran? Senate Democrats say no, and late yesterday forced…
King Charles’s US state visit was never in doubt
Mark Twain famously wrote that “rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated”, and similar rumors have proliferated about King…
The Democrats’ weakness on war powers
Given my longstanding disgust with America’s lawlessly interventionist and self-destructive foreign policy, I should be outraged by Donald Trump’s cavalier…
Trump’s State of the Union address was pure theater
Watching Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address tonight, I thought of two homely things. One was something that a…
Release the Gonzales files
We know the terrible details of how congressional staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, 35, died. She poured gasoline on herself and then…
My theatrical Senate confirmation hearing
It’s a bit difficult to explain a Senate confirmation process to those who haven’t gone through it. It is, to…
After Trump comes reform
America needs Donald Trump, badly. He is the bull in the china shop that every nation needs from time to…
Kyrsten Sinema was too fun for Congress
More like Kyrsten Sinner? In September, a North Carolina woman, Heather Ammel, filed a suit in county court alleging that former…
The trouble with Jerome Powell
Lost in the hysterical media bleating about a new criminal investigation into Jerome Powell is any attempt to report fairly…
Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric
Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…
Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric
Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…
The trouble with alienating Middle America
You’ve got to admire the left. Granted, they own the internet, the media, the courts (apparently) and now the government,…
So much for cooler heads prevailing
There was a glimmer of hope amid the events at the US Capitol building on Wednesday. Could this be the…
MAGA arrives at the last level of the video game
I played my share of video games when I was a kid and there was nothing quite like getting to…
The end game
January 6, 2021 is a day that will live in infamy. On that day, our Capitol was assaulted by a…
Beijing revels in Washington’s chaos
The events on Capitol Hill were always going to be met with schadenfreude — perhaps even glee — among autocracies in…
The carnival in the Capitol
Generally, events that we think are significant will be passed over by historians — much in the same manner as…
We are living in a NeverTrump fantasy universe
Last July, Cockburn had this to say: ‘Commentators daydream of the moment Trump is dragged out, like Saddam Hussein from…
Remove Donald Trump now
Enough is enough. There really is no other way to contextualize perhaps the darkest day for America since airplanes hit…
This is not what a constitutional republic looks like
When a violent mob broke into the Capitol building, they did more than breach the barriers of House and Senate…
Why would anyone choose to live in Puerto Rico?
6 July 2024 9:00 am
US bailouts keep this poor relation afloat through bankruptcies, hurricanes and political bust-ups without even trying to boost its demographics or reverse its economic decline