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About Hunter Biden

by Susan Estrich EDITOR'S NOTE: Froma Harrop is on vacation this week. This column by Susan Estrich was provided as a substitution. Her next column will appear on Sept. 7. President Joe Biden loves his son. That’s the long and short of it. The son’s a first-class mess. Former drug ...

Where do we file Hunter Biden in our mindless politics?

What about Hunter Biden? Well, what about him? If the president’s son is found to have cheated on his taxes, the most serious accusation so far, then punish him. This is an interesting story but not a very important story until it’s determined that his father, President Joe Biden, ...

Burisma = Benghazi 2.0

by Martin Schram You don’t need to be a famous codebreaker to crack the codename — “My Guy” — that kept popping up in Hunter Biden’s emails. He’d just seen the first sign that his big ka-ching deal with Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company, would pay off, ...

GOP should keep pursuing Hunter Biden probe

For the second time in a week, Donald Trump has been indicted. Perhaps he’s Hunter Biden’s lucky charm. The latest Trump charges — filed last Tuesday by special counsel Jack Smith — stem from the former president’s failure to go quietly after he lost the 2020 election. The ...

Democrats or Republicans — Whom to believe?

It is an unfortunate truism of politics that partisans tend to believe the worst about members of the opposite party and no amount of facts — if, indeed, facts can be agreed upon — move people from their entrenched positions. Largely, I think, it’s all about gaining or keeping power and ...

Is the Hunter Biden plea deal really a slap on the wrist?

Hunter Biden’s tentative federal plea agreement is bound to displease partisans on both sides, which is one sign that it’s a fair and suitable disposition of the long-standing investigation of the president’s son. The deal revealed in court papers Tuesday requires the younger Biden ...