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 …
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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…
Donald Trump has many obsessions, as we know: his ballroom, his arch, his Reflecting Pool, his retribution campaign. Well, you get the idea.But he has three obsessions that never sleep. That’s not meant as a pun because when he doesn’t sleep, his obsessions with trashing the old Air Force One, trash…
I’ll say what a lot of people are thinking but won’t say out loud, and that is history is not going to be kind to Lindsey Graham. Not even close.When you strip away the tributes for Graham who died on Saturday – tributes from some but certainly not all – what’s left is a 30-plus-year Senate career d…
It’s taken me more than a decade, but I think I’ve finally figured Donald Trump out.Basically, whatever Trump says publicly, I’ve taken to assume the precise opposite is true. He says the war in Iran is going well? I’ll know it’s going horribly. He claims to know nothing about the proposed $1.776 bi…
Of all the Donald Trump loyalists currently getting away with the biggest political cover-up in American history, Acting Attorney General Todd “Yes Sir, May I Please Have Another” Blanche is the biggest Trumpsimp of all. Aside from publicly declaring how much he “loves” Trump (full cringe in effect)…
President Donald Trump is a desperate man. With the midterms on the horizon and his approval ratings under water, he doesn’t want to talk about affordability. Nor does he want to talk about his war with Iran. And he certainly doesn’t want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein.What does he want to talk about…