To the extent I spent any time studying in college, it was to learn about American history. The main impression…
The best seasonal present, this year and any year (since 1857), is of course a subscription to The Atlantic. Get…
Governor Jerry Brown of California got Twitter-verse attention for saying two days ago that if Donald Trump shuts down satellite…
I have a soft spot for Rick Perry, finding his aw-shucks demeanor more natural-seeming than most politicians’. I can even…
As I mentioned in this post in late November, and in this followup, and also in a discussion with Diane…
This morning, straight off the plane from Shanghai, I was on The Diane Rehm Show with Margaret Sullivan, much-missed former…
Yesterday from China, I did a long item on the utter inadequacy of standard press practices in the face of…
A man who will literally have life and death power over much of humanity seems not to understand or care…
From the inbox, an engineer who is directly involved in the technology for tabulating votes in a number of states…
Back in May, I kicked off a Trump Time Capsule series, designed to note what we knew, when we knew…
As a study of oratorical styles, this is genuinely worth watching, even if you don't understand a word of…
Thank you to readers for the hundreds of messages that have been pouring in daily. In most of the time…
Most of what I think about last night’s results I discussed in a long talk early this morning with Terry…
A for-the-record personal-preference note on election eve. Yes for Aguilar. If I lived in my original hometown of…
Ten days ago I argued that FBI Director James Comey had changed the dynamics of the 2016 election in an…
With his ill-advised intrusions into this year’s election, FBI Director James Comey has already damaged U.S. interests and the…
Two of my long-time, politically well-experienced friends have been in Nevada recently, doing get-out-the-vote work. Independently, each has just sent…
Five and a half months ago, as Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, I thought it would be worth…
A reader in New York writes about the way he is casting his vote. He also asks a question, for…
Presented with minimal elaboration, today’s installment of the “what is Director Comey thinking?” saga: This story is…
