Opinion · 115th Congress
The President Who Walled Himself Into a Corner
And border guards killed nearly 200 East Germans as they tried to flee to freedom in the West. In contrast, the U.S.-Mexican border is more than 1,900 miles long.
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Opinion · 115th Congress
Presidents Once Provided Comfort and Leadership in Crises.
“In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.” That was the kind of leadership in a national crisis that only a president could offer.
Opinion · 115th Congress
How the Republicans Fell for Trump’s Overconfidence Game
cannot be directly blamed, of course, for Trump’s well-documented ignorance, his obsession with Fox News, his vicious attacks on the FBI, his constant belittling of his own attorney general and his obtuse refusal
Opinion · 115th Congress
A Post-McCain Mystery: Why Does the GOP Put Up With Trump’s Graceless Vulgarity?
Nothing better symbolizes the cruel vulgarity of the Trump administration than the president’s refusal to offer a public comment for 48 hours on McCain’s death beyond a barebones tweet combined with
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump’s Gigantic Trade Straw Is Breaking the GOP’s Back
bad faith” and deserves a special place in hell.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: I’m Sorry You’re Not Sorry
John McCain’s refusal to support President Donald Trump’s pick for CIA director won’t matter because “he’s dying anyway.”
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump’s Name Isn’t on Any Midterm Ballot — But It’s All About Him
If McMaster has indeed joined Rex Tillerson in the ever-growing Trump Alumni Association, it should put to rest the glib theory that the so-called “adults in the room” could constrain a petulant president
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: How Does Trump Kill Time Before the Midterms? Treason Season
In his place was Tantrum Trump, a divisive figure who lashes out at his enemies with a level of vitriol unseen in American politics since Roy Cohn (a Trump mentor) was advising Joe McCarthy in the
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Big What-If Question Hovering Over 2018
the speaker’s gavel after eight years in the minority.”
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Commandments According to Roy Moore Take a Hit
Moore has twice been ousted from his chief justice perch at the Alabama Supreme Court, the first time for his refusal to move a granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the state
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Now McConnell Believes the Women
But there is no explanation for the refusal of congressional leaders to wake up to the sexual harassment that has been embedded in the culture of Capitol Hill for decades, if not longer, and to insist
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Strange Times for Mitch McConnell in the Alabama Senate Race
term in the next election.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Don’t Skip the Recess, Skip the Games
Two more weeks in the swamp? Great! But McConnell was also facing the annual July chorus of demands to stay in town through the August recess to pass “something important.”
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Russia Scandal — Where’s the Caviar Atop the Blini?
Equally baffling (unless you believe that Trump’s blimp-like ego explains everything) is the president’s refusal to accept the intelligence community’s verdict that Russia deliberately intervened in the
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: A Don’t-Blame-Us Congress Ducks on Syria
Not only are we poised to re-enact Watergate in Washington, but we are also getting a whiff of Cold War brinksmanship in Syria.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: How a Textbook in 2067 Might View Donald Trump
Buoyed by Trump’s rising poll numbers (he crossed the 50-percent threshold in the Gallup Poll in July), Republicans in Congress rallied to pass a $1.8 trillion tax cut and a complete rewrite of Barack
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: American Isolationism From the League of Nations to Trump
The Senate’s refusal to join the League of Nations ushered in two decades of isolationism culminating in an America First movement that argued that Hitler’s takeover of Europe was of no concern to
Opinion · 115th Congress
Trump Transforms GOP Into the Softer-On-Russia Party
members, and aided far-right anti-immigrant political parties in Europe.
Opinion · 114th Congress
Jeff Sessions Is Unfit for the Cabinet
Much as his colleagues may be loath to keep him in their chamber — he has frustrated both Democrats and Republicans with his refusal to consent to votes on popular legislation over the course of
Opinion · 114th Congress
The Three Voters Who Helped Me Understand Trump
The speaker was a scruffily dressed man in his mid-thirties, who works in information technology, explaining his vote for Trump in the March 15 Ohio primary.