Editor’s Blog
Every day, as the novel coronavirus spreads lethally across the nation, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is conducting a televised master class in government that has drawn a wide and admiring audience.
Until the pandemic struck, the rank incompetence of Trump and those closest to him seemed likely to protect us from at least some of their most destructive impulses.
Biden was more than adequate to the moment – especially in contrast to the wretched performance of the actual president
There are many things that a competent and intelligent government can doand could have done to prevent the worst. Competent and intelligent government is not what exists in Washington now.
The simple truth is that a minimal investment in global health could have provided substantial insurance against the kind of menace we now confront.
If the Trump pardons look sketchy, consider the fact that Trump simply ignored the Justice Department process that is traditionally employed in evaluating such requests.
Authoritarian governments almost always operate in a style that resembles organized crime outfits. Despite their ostentatious populism, such regimes exist to enrich thuggish rulers and enable corruption in high places. The Trump administration is a ...
Some Republicans concede that Trump acted as charged -- but much more remains to be discovered about the Ukraine plot.
"Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest. Mostly you are right. Your election is in the public interest," said Dershowitz
The Republicans stood mutely as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-K.Y., told the nation that he would manage the trial in lockstep with the president's lawyers.
