Ron DeSantis had it coming, but Donald Trump’s attempts to paint the Florida governor as a scarier right-winger than he is deserve to fail. What DeSantis has […]
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Afghanistan report sugar-coats Biden, Trump catastrophe
The Biden administration admits to having made some mistakes — some — in its withdrawal from Afghanistan, but the admission doesn’t come close to acknowledging the catastrophe […]
Donald Trump unites, then divides
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 […]
Why Trump’s indictment fills ‘never again’ Trumpers with dread, despair
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 […]
Three takeaways from Trump’s historic arrest and arraignment
by Harry Litman Since it became clear that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg intended to charge Donald Trump with crimes growing out of hush money payments to […]
A message for Donald Trump: Character matters
Leaving aside all the sometimes legitimate and sometimes illegitimate responses from defenders of former President Donald Trump following his indictment by a New York grand jury, there […]
Follow the facts, not the rhetoric, in Trump case
Donald Trump, who has shattered nearly every political precedent, is now the first ex-president to be indicted. The charges, which are thought to be focused on an […]
Trump’s Stormy Daniels payoff could finally get him indicted. But should it?
by Jonah Goldberg “There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question,” Alexis de Tocqueville, […]
The peril of charging Trump for bookkeeping fraud but not election lies
by Patricia Murphy Donald Trump has never been an understated man. His motto in life always seems to have been, “Why just do something when you can […]
John F. Kennedy knew West Virginians better than Trump
Sixty years ago this June, President John F. Kennedy came to West Virginia for a celebration of the state’s centennial. Despite the rain, an estimated 10,000 people […]