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At worst, President Trump’s claim of emergency powers that would allow him to expand barriers on the southern border is a gross violation of...
In July, 2017, North Korea test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile. President Trump initially dismissed intelligence reports of the launch as...
Earlier this week, President Trump used his Twitter account to make what was, especially for him, a curiously specific plea for the Tennessee Valley...
Last night, a federal judge ruled that Paul Manafort violated his plea agreement by lying repeatedly to federal prosecutors about the Russia...
Donald Trump ran for president promising to build a wall on the southern border that Mexico would pay for. For the first two years of his presidency,...
The first two years of the Trump administration, Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress and could quash any movement to compel the release...
The fallout from the Green New Deal rollout last week can be felt in the form of a new round of stories explaining what went wrong. Reports in Vox and...
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, appearing on Fox News Sunday , repeated the official administration line that Democrats had to choose...
Donald Trump and various entities he has controlled have been subject to a wide array of criminal investigations, some of them quite intricate and...
The next time it gains control of the federal government, the Democratic Party is going to need to quickly implement an ambitious program to reduce...
The Trump tax cuts had several publicly stated goals. First, by lowering corporate tax rates, they would induce companies to bring home massive stores...
There is no issue in American politics that splits the parties more cleanly than the taxation of large inherited fortunes. Last year’s Republican...
Mick Mulvaney’s progression from debt-hysteric, government-shutting Freedom Caucus insurgent to debt-increasing budget director: a play in five...
President Trump’s State of the Union speech was the first since Democrats assumed control of the House of Representatives. Hence it was also the...
Howard Schultz’s presidential campaign opened up to mixed reviews — within the prized demographic of socially liberal, fiscally moderate...
Last week, intelligence officials testified publicly that Iran has not resumed its efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon. The next day, President Trump...
One of the most intriguing unsolved mysteries of the Russia investigation has been a series of phone calls Donald Trump Jr. made to a blocked phone...
For a brief period of time, The Wall was transformed into a fence, or a barrier, or perhaps some nice, tasteful slats. As of 7:16 a.m. ET, it has...
Let’s assume that Howard Schultz is not just an aggrieved billionaire who’s threatening to punish Democrats because he’s angry they want to...
Six Trump campaign associates so far have been indicted for or pleaded guilty to a wide array of federal crimes. And this is before some of the...
The Democratic party is gravitating toward two positions on health care. The first is to extend the gains of Obamacare by adding coverage options: a...
Deep in a Josh Dawsey report about President Trump’s love of spending hours showing off the White House to random visitors is a report of Trump...
Billionaire coffee-shop mogul Howard Schultz is seriously thinking of running for president as an independent. Schultz appears to be one of those rich...
President Trump’s painful delusion that he could use a government shutdown to force Democrats to fund his campaign theme came to a predictable yet...
The FBI indictment of former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone contains the unsurprising revelation that Stone threatened an associate, and his pet...
One of the tropes of Trump-era Washington reporting is that any time President Trump is doing something unusually stupid and cruel, stories will...
Much of the news coverage of the government shutdown has implicitly communicated an argument: Yes, President Trump may bear the blame for starting it,...
In the middle of the George W. Bush administration, a large and persistent generation gap opened up in the American electorate. The full effects of...
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s attorney-of-sorts, is either a blithering imbecile, or a subtle genius carrying out a brilliant defense strategy on...
The first two years of the Trump administration have mostly combined ethical calamities large (the separation of migrant children from their parents)...
In the middle of January, the Russia investigation as we understand it ceased to be merely an inquiry into “collusion.” It was revealed as...
At first glance, the revelation by BuzzFeed News reporters Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to...
Rudy Giuliani used to insist the Trump campaign had never colluded with Russia. Sure, Russians may have offered to help them in a Trump Tower meeting,...
Matt Stoller, who has repeatedly dismissed the Obama administration as a failure, tells the New York Times that candidates who sound like Obama will...
Last month, The Wall Street Journal published an explosive scoop that, like most recent mind-boggling political scandals, would have commanded...
This morning, President Trump announced he would be hosting the national champion Clemson football team for a celebratory dinner at the White House....
This morning, President Trump announced he would be hosting the national champion Clemson football team for a celebratory dinner at the White House....
Having blundered into a government shutdown, President Trump has three plausible options to end it. One, he could simply agree to reopen the...
Last September, I wrote about Elizabeth Warren’s smart platform, which has harnessed the most politically attractive elements of the populist agenda...
Friday night, the New York Times published a bombshell report that the FBI has been investigating whether President Trump “had been working on...
Yesterday, Paul Manafort’s lawyers inadvertently disclosed that their client had passed polling data to his Konstantin Kilimnik, his business...
In a short, uncharacteristically non-meandering speech to the nation from the Oval Office punctuated by loud sniffing, President Trump depicted...
The idea that Donald Trump’s campaign did not collude with Russia always rested on an implausible scenario, in which every single one of the many...
Last week, President Trump asserted that several of his predecessors personally told him they wished they had built a border wall. “This should have...
The Trump administration’s shutdown of the federal government over the last two weeks is a synecdoche for the way it has run the federal government...
President Trump has recently embraced the argument, a favorite of conservative news sites and television hosts, that because wealthy people sometimes...
“When a man becomes president,” said Rudy Giuliani not long ago, “he shouldn’t be subject to a review of his entire life.” Putting aside for...
The conservative intelligentsia initially greeted the rise of Donald Trump with revulsion. After some of them peeled off, a minority remained within...