We are, right now, dealing with a war overseas with Iran that has done so much damage to our country’s reputation, military, and economy that the ramifications, serious as they are now, will likely only get worse in the years ahead.At home, gas prices are climbing. Food prices and mortgage rates are…
Category: Opinion
Tonight at nine o’clock Eastern, Donald Trump will look into a television camera and tell America he’s rescuing democracy. He teased the address to reporters this week, promising “really big news” about “free and fair elections” and adding that “it doesn’t get bigger.” For once, he and I agree. It d…
Some of the less imaginative in the media refer to the “Blue Tea Party” to label the zeitgeist that is taking hold of the nation as young Democratic Socialists are making noise, winning elections, and being “nice” about it.Please. This wonderful development, long in the making, is hardly a retread o…
Todd Blanche walked into the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning carrying the worst résumé any attorney general nominee has had in modern memory. Bar none — and bar is not a pun because Blanche could be disbarred.How far down we have sunk.Blanche has a documented role in burying Epstein files, h…
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill — which gave the top 1% fully $118 billion this year in tax cuts — turns a year old this week and Republicans in Congress actually celebrated the largest cuts to food assistance and Medicaid in American history.They told us it was about fraud, about lazy people gaming the …
You cannot be a prominent spokesperson for Donald Trump and not live in a liminal space of existential hypocrisy, and so perhaps one shouldn’t be all that hard on White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who had a less-than-fantastic holiday and summer-opening; it is, after all, her job to defend …
The frustrating thing about telling the truth is knowing that you’re right, but that it ultimately may not make any difference to the people who need to hear it the most.Welcome to my job amid the last 11 years of Trump’s blight on all of our political norms — most significantly in the way he’s abus…
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Donald Trump’s ability to avoid accountability for the many previously inconceivable actions he’s taken as president often seemed premised on two essential elements: First, his every scandal was in the open for the world to see; if the coverup is always worse than the crime, don’t bother covering an…
I almost didn’t write about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.He was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on the morning of July 7, 2026, during a traffic stop in Houston, Texas.And, as I was putting the finishing touches on this column about Lorenzo, It happened again. On Mo…