America’s capital is more on edge now than at perhaps any other time since the eve of the Civil War in 1860. The city was tense during Watergate, of course....
It has been a calamity for the United States that, when two national tragedies – the COVID-19 crisis and the country’s legacy of racism – collided this...
In April 2011, Donald Trump, then considering a run for the presidency the following year, said that he had sent investigators to Hawaii to check out rumors...
The most significant and unusual contest – possibly ever – to nominate the challenger to a sitting United States president is effectively over. Former Vice...
The U.S. presidential election in November is the most consequential in modern history. Whether the increasingly authoritarian, vindictive and dangerous...
The recent tense, dangerous exchanges between the United States and Iran have revealed a great deal about U.S. President Donald Trump’s management of his...
Much as he mocked the process for months, U.S. President Donald Trump very much did not want to be impeached. No president does; it’s an ineradicable stain on...
The most dismaying thing about the impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump is that they are falling so short of the constitutional...
For the first time, reasonable people in the United States have begun to speculate that President Donald Trump could be convicted by the Senate and thus...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s presidency is in peril. He’s likely to be impeached (the equivalent of an indictment) by the House of Representatives, and it...
After every mass shooting in the United States, Americans and others around the world are confronted with the question of what lies behind this distinctly...
Events of the past few weeks have highlighted the current vulnerability of the United States, not militarily - that is a subject for another day - but in...
The unprecedentedly large number of candidates - 25 at last count - for the Democratic nomination to take on U.S. President Donald Trump in 2020 has led to an...
The American people should have known that something was awry when U.S. President Donald Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, announced Friday, March 22,...
Whoever explained to then-U.S. President-elect Donald Trump what it meant to be president if anyone did neglected to tell him that on occasion a president...
With the approach of this year’s midterm elections in the United States, domestic terrorism is starting to dominate the political landscape. First, barely two...
This isn’t a good time to be Donald J. Trump. Granted, it’s been a while since it was, but this is the grimmest period of his presidency thus far. And Trump...
As the first criminal trial of a major figure in U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign got underway in Virginia last week, observers have...
Suddenly, without much thought or planning, which is essentially how he operates, U.S. President Donald Trump lit a match to his administration by approving a...
President Donald Trump may not seem to have much in common with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, but Trump’s autocratic tendencies are becoming more...
Last week was a most unusual one for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. There was no high-level firing: The only dismissal of any note was that of...
It’s gotten to the point where one might almost feel sorry for Donald Trump. While that “almost” reflects a gap too wide for Trump’s opponents to bridge, it...
The just-released book about Donald Trump and his dysfunctional presidency (Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House) has left much of Washington reeling....
As U.S. President Donald Trump decamped to his mansion-cum-private club in Palm Beach, Florida, for the holidays, he left Washington on edge. It’s...
Much of America’s capital has entered a state of near panic. In recent days, President Donald Trump has been acting more bizarrely than ever, and the question...