There are several ways of looking at the events that occurred last week inside a Manhattan courtroom and later at Donald Trump’s home in Florida. First, the indictment of the former president for illegally “conspiring” to win the White House in the 2016 election by paying ...
by Jonah Goldberg Now is a time of woe, not just for “Never Trump” conservatives, but also for the much larger group of Republicans who made peace with Trump once but dread having to do it again. In fact, just going by my unscientific survey, the melancholy is worse for ...
by David L. Nevins As often happens these days, last week a friend of mine was quite angry by something his member of Congress did and vented his dissatisfaction to me: “The problem with Congress is that these bums are accountable to no one. They do whatever they want and get away ...
by Will Bunch If you’ve never heard of the Willow project — the massive, up-to-600-million-barrels oil-drilling venture on federal lands in the Alaska wilderness that was greenlighted this week by the Biden administration — then you’re probably also not a teen or 20-something ...
by David L. Nevins When I think about the tactics of the Democrat and Republican parties, I am reminded of lyrics from the Buffalo Springfield song 50 years ago: “There’s something happening here “What it is ain’t exactly clear ... “Nobody’s ...
by Doyle McManus President Joe Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget proposal last week, and it drew the customary jaded responses: a work of fiction; a party platform with price tags; and, of course, dead on arrival. All true. But from Biden’s standpoint, the budget ...