Opinion: What we don’t know about Trump’s firing of Comey
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin) At...
View ArticleOpinion: Something important lost in the hysteria about Trump, FBI
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) speaks while chairman Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sits nearby, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, May 10. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images) Here’s something you may...
View ArticleOpinion: The questions that will determine President Trump’s fate
Al Drago / The New York Times The protective layers around President Trump are wearing thin. The New York Times cites two unnamed sources who claim James Comey wrote a memo describing Trump’s request...
View ArticleOpinion: What Georgia could teach Trump about budget savings
There’s a saying about government: The budget is policy. No other document, from legislation to campaign materials, represents an administration’s vision and priorities with the breadth and depth of...
View ArticleOpinion: The big takeaways – for both sides – from Comey’s testimony
AP Photos Like everything else in politics today, ousted FBI Director James Comey’s written testimony about his interactions with President Trump is likely to produce Rorschach-like reactions. If you...
View ArticleOpinion: In today’s politics, there is only the backlash
British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the press Friday. May’s gamble in calling an early election backfired spectacularly, as her Conservative Party lost its majority in Parliament. (AP Photo /...
View ArticleOpinion: How Trump is prodding liberals to agree with conservatism
For at least two and a half centuries, Americans have argued over the proper size and scope of a central government. Though the abuses of power by a distant monarch and legislature sparked our revolt...
View ArticleOpinion: Donald Trump Jr.’s stunningly bad emails about Russia
Donald Trump Jr. campaigns for his father Gilbert, Ariz., November 2016. (AP file photo) The President Trump/Russia story was suddenly revived in a big way the past few days via the reporting of the...
View ArticleOpinion: The speech Trump should have given to the Boy Scouts
President Donald Trump at the Boy Scouts of America’s 2017 National Scout Jamboree in Glen Jean, W.Va., July 24. (Doug Mills / The New York Times) Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. I am...
View ArticleOpinion: GOP’s Obamacare failure has many fathers (and mothers)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. (Melina Mara / The Washington Post) The biggest lie in politics over the past several years has been that the Republican Party is a band of blinkered zealots who mulishly...
View ArticleOpinion: Why we, and Trump, must condemn white supremacists by name
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” with body armor and combat weapons evacuate comrades who were pepper sprayed after the “Unite the Right” rally was declared a unlawful...
View ArticleOpinion: And just like that, Steve Bannon’s out at the White House
Steve Bannon in late April, or about halfway through his tenure as chief strategist in the Trump White House. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster) Well, there’s at least one thing Donald Trump brought from the...
View ArticleOpinion: Trump takes his shot at ending the war in Afghanistan
President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va., on Monday, during a Presidential Address to the Nation about a strategy he believes will best position the U.S. to eventually declare...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Trump’s DACA move is a prerequisite for immigration fix
Stephen Crowley / The New York Times Here is the price of governing by executive order: The next executive has the power to undo what you’ve done. And that is what the Trump administration is doing...
View ArticleOpinion: What is Trump doing? Being Trump, that’s what
The look on Sen. Chuck Schumer’s face, at Wednesday’s meeting with President Trump, says all you need to know. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci) There were a lot of shocked folks Wednesday when reports emerged...
View ArticleOpinion: The national debt hits the big 2-0 (trillion)
One of these men only increased the national debt. The other one is looking no better so far. That’s bipartisanship in contemporary America.(Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) I failed to bring your...
View ArticleOpinion: President Trump vs. the NFL is peak 2017
Falcons owner Arthur Blank joins arms with his players during the playing of the national anthem prior to the game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday in Detroit. (Leon Halip / Getty Images) There is...
View ArticleOpinion: The real fallout from Trump ending these health subsidies
This group might be reconvened to talk about health reform after the president’s latest move. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci) It’s an odd spectacle to see Democrats attacking a proper implementation of...
View ArticleOpinion: Two (maybe three) big developments in Mueller’s probe
Paul Manafort, then Donald Trump’s presidential campaign manager, talks on the phone at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 17, 2016. (Eric Thayer / The New York Times) A man who led...
View ArticleOpinion: What Michael Flynn’s guilty plea does and doesn’t tell us
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, Feb. 1. (AP File Photo / Carolyn Kaster) A lot of people spent their morning trying to figure out the...
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