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“My colleagues and I could go bankrupt, and the institutions that made the U.S. the greatest power in the history of the world could wither and collapse, and almost no one in Washington would care.”
Please read my colleagues Russell Berman, Elaina Plott, and Amanda Mull on the spectacle that took place this afternoon in…
Last month I had an article in the print magazine about a reported deathbed confession, by the GOP operative Lee…
I imagine this will be the last installment in the “weather flying with Marine One” series. Two previous entries here…
Last night I posted an item about weather conditions this past weekend in Paris, when Donald Trump joined other world…
The new issue of the magazine (subscribe!) has an article by me on a tantalizing “what if?” question involving…
The huge New York Times report today by David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner, five weeks before the midterm…
Brett Kavanaugh’s suitability to serve as a Supreme Court justice differs from Donald Trump’s suitability to serve as a president…
American presidents usually address the United Nations General Assembly in the fall—as you can see here, and as Donald Trump…
I have been offline, traveling for actual reporting, over the weekend, and reappear to find… argh!!! There is no possible…
Way back in Trump Time Capsule #4, when Donald Trump was about to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, I mentioned…
Here are some items from the news that barely break the consciousness-barrier, amid the Kavanaugh confirmation fight and other chaos…
Because these details tend to get lost in the froth, let’s pause to note two extraordinary steps Donald Trump took…
At the moment, in mid-September—with no way of knowing how the midterm elections will go, or what legal entanglements lie…
According to the Washington Post just now, Senator Jeff Flake, of Arizona, who is a Republican and a member of…
Two days ago, Paul Manafort made his plea-bargain deal with Robert Mueller’s federal investigators. As part of the terms, he…
The most cynical decision George H. W. Bush made as president was to nominate Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court…
As I write, the national news is dominated by the arrival of Hurricane Florence, and the political news has emphasized…
Back during the 2016 campaign, I put out 152 installments of the Trump Time Capsule series, chronicling what was known…
Two very useful assessments of Bob Woodward’s mega-best-selling Fear, officially published today, are this one by Isaac Chotiner, in Slate…