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From Donald Trump, a New Low
The purpose of my 152-installment Trump Time Capsule series during the 2016 campaign was to record, in real time, things…
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Two Additions to the Political Reading List: Unbelievable and Thanks, Obama
The relationship between the drama of a presidential campaign, and the literature and reportage that come from it, is shaky…
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Readers on Trump, Kaepernick, and the NFL
Over the weekend I wrote about Donald Trump’s attacks on protesting NFL players, at a raucous rally in Alabama, and…
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Xavier Becerra on the California ‘Resistance’
Last month, at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I emceed an hour-long discussion with Xavier Becerra, the new Attorney General of…
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Trump’s Oval Office: ‘But What About the Chairs?’
On Friday—a few hours before Donald Trump pardoned ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, and before Hurricane Harvey made its devastating landfall on…
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Trump and the Chickenhawk Chronicles
Late last night I did an item arguing that Donald Trump represented a classic “chickenhawk” figure from the Vietnam era—someone…
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Follow-Up on the Health-Care Vote: On the Media, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Pentimenti
After these recent items about the Senate’s failure to repeal Barack Obama’s health-care law—installments #1 (drawing a parallel with 1960s-era…
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Collins, Murkowski—and McCain
The rushed, secretive, reckless effort to get a “win,” any win, by undoing the Obama health care plan is…
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The Perils of Prediction in the Age of Trump
More than two years ago, soon after Donald Trump entered the presidential race, I noted online that no one like…
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A Longtime Senate Staffer, on John McCain
I’ve had my say about John McCain’s decision to support the rushed consideration of the Republican drive to repeal Obamacare…
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Responding to Trump: What about the State AGs? What about the Democrats? And the Germans?
In response to three recent pieces—one discussing the public and private parts of the U.S. system of self-governance…
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Projection President
Months into his tenure, Trump still responds to controversies by lobbing the same charges at his opponents.
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Stories From Another Time, for Our Times: ‘We Do Our Part’
To the extent I spent any time studying in college, it was to learn about American history. The main impression…
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Books to Read (or Buy), According to Me
The best seasonal present, this year and any year (since 1857), is of course a subscription to The Atlantic. Get…
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This Is What the Resistance Sounds Like
Governor Jerry Brown of California got Twitter-verse attention for saying two days ago that if Donald Trump shuts down satellite…
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Which Department Should Rick Perry Head? The Answer Will Come to You.
I have a soft spot for Rick Perry, finding his aw-shucks demeanor more natural-seeming than most politicians’. I can even…
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Landslide Donald
As I mentioned in this post in late November, and in this followup, and also in a discussion with Diane…
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‘There’s No Such Thing Anymore, Unfortunately, as Facts’
This morning, straight off the plane from Shanghai, I was on The Diane Rehm Show with Margaret Sullivan, much-missed former…
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A More Detailed Guide to Dealing With Trump's Lies
Yesterday from China, I did a long item on the utter inadequacy of standard press practices in the face of…
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How to Deal With the Lies of Donald Trump: Guidelines for the Media
A man who will literally have life and death power over much of humanity seems not to understand or care…
