Richard Nixon was bad. Donald Trump is much worse.
Last week’s viral photograph of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointing her finger at President Trump and reading him the riot act reflected a lar…
President Trump’s defense against impeachment is bombastic, full of lies and incoherent to the point of lunacy, which is no surprise. Republic…
I get my felonies mixed up. Was President Trump committing bribery, if he offered the Ukrainian president $250 million in foreign aid in excha…
This doesn’t qualify as earth-shattering news at this point, but President Trump showed us again this week how spectacularly ignorant, vainglo…
Is it my imagination, or is President Trump’s chronic and debilitating case of Obama Envy getting worse?
Editor’s note: Regular columnist Suzanne Fields is off this week.
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The erratic Trump administration has had just one consistent policy principle, one guiding North Star: punitive and often sadistic treatment o…
President Trump’s decision to put away his racist dog whistle and bring out his racist bullhorn has just one plausible explanation: desperation.
Donald Trump’s presidency is melting down into a noxious stew of racism, failure and farce. With breathtaking cynicism, the Republican Party p…
Never-Trump Republicans and independents may be shocked to hear this, but the Democratic Party is likely to nominate a Democrat for president.…
The Fourth of July celebration in Washington has long been a grand pageant of democracy, a family-friendly event that transcends ideology and …
Donald “Bone Spurs” Trump is in Britain, attempting to celebrate a special relationship forged in heroic military sacrifice. Donald “I Didn’t …
Rep. Justin Amash finally said out loud what many other Republicans know but will only whisper: “President Trump engaged in specific actions a…
There are roughly eight million plant and animal species in the world. One of them — homo sapiens — may soon wipe out a million of the rest. A…
I’ve got the perfect slogan for President Trump’s re-election campaign: “Promises Made, Promises Not Kept, But I’m Betting My Voters Are Too S…
“Let’s all be on the right side of history,” a jubilant Spike Lee said Sunday night as he accepted his Oscar. He needn’t have worried. Hollywo…
The decision by Virginia’s top three elected officials to hunker down and cling to their jobs is bad for both the state and the Democratic Par…
There are 8.5 million Virginians. Surely the commonwealth can find someone to serve as governor whose yearbook page does not prominently featu…
Just what we need, another ego-crazed billionaire with zero experience in government who thinks he is destined to be president. What could go wrong?
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