It should surprise no one that this presidential election — the first ever to involve a female nominee from a major party in the top spot — has devolved into a contest o...
Less than a month before the election, the Republican speaker of the House says he won’t defend or campaign with his party’s presidential nominee.
The nominee has respo...
It’s a good thing Mike Pence has a conscience because he’s going to need it as he struggles with what to do next as Donald Trump’s running mate, including whether he sho...
Voters who wondered just how low Donald Trump would go in his race against Hillary Clinton got their answer on Sunday night.
From the run-up to the debate — in which Tru...
A reactionary is someone who wishes to return, usually unrealistically, to an earlier and more appealing era. We have two reactionaries running for president. Both peddl...
Where’s stalemate when we need it?
The other day, by a vote of 97-1 in the Senate and 348-77 in the House, Congress overrode President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that...
Mike Pence’s vice-presidential debate victory was a striking blow for normality.
In fact, beneath the sound and the fury of the Trump campaign, normal Republicans are ha...
Donald Trump has done America a great public service. No, really. By taking advantage of the country’s tax laws in such spectacular fashion, he has shone a spotlight on ...
In very different ways, their two understudies provided Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with a road map of the most productive approaches to take when the two president...
“The unfairness of the tax laws is unbelievable,” Donald Trump told supporters in Colorado this week. “I’m a big beneficiary. But you’re more important than my being a b...
