President-elect Trump has named several people to his next administration who have faced legal troubles, including Trump himself who was convicted in a New York hush money case during his 2024 campaign. Some of his appointees have served jail time, including cases that involve protecting Trump on Jan. 6 during his first administration. Other convictions...
Sen. Ed Markey claims people should be terrified that Trump will have nuclear strike authority, but people pushed back, noting that Trump already had that authority during his first term.
President-elect Donald Trump‘s fraught, tempestuous, yet ultimately empowering relationship with the legal system has defined his political career. It dominated his first term, continued to play a critical role during his antipresidency, and is now poised to exert a decisive influence on his second administration. It will do so in the same forms it has […]
In 2020, political writers who favored Joe Biden seemed to all coalesce on the same word: empathy. Time magazine ran a big story about “Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Importance of Empathy.” The Atlantic enthused that “in the entire history of American presidential campaigns, there may never have been a wider gap in empathy […]
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring a swift end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict in his second term, but it remains unclear what exactly he means to do. His Cabinet appointees are an eclectic mix of national security hawks and skeptics, and Trump himself seems far more focused on competition with the Chinese Communist Party […]
This is the season of light and hope. We dared to dream that we were past the worst. The pardoning of Hunter Biden looked like the last act of the senile and corrupt President Joe Biden. The peevish race-baiting of perma-President Barack Obama is confounded, the Democrats’ antidemocratic schemes hoist by their own petard. President-elect […]
I rise in the middle of the night, go outdoors at sunrise, but both in the fields and at home I study, think, read, and write … Every day I wander over the rocky mountains, through the dewy valleys and caverns … Meanwhile here I have established my Rome, my Athens, and my spiritual fatherland; […]
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., says he is “frustrated" by the government's lack of transparency over the large drones spotted in various northeastern states in recent weeks.