When Did Kindness Become a Liberal Conspiracy? Somewhere along the way, a strange idea took hold in parts of the American political right: kindness is weakness, compassion is naïveté, and treating people with dignity is apparently the first step toward national...
MAGA and The Ten Commandments Democracy has one particularly annoying requirement: sometimes your side loses. Ordinary political parties understand this. They complain, blame consultants, fire campaign managers, discover the importance of “listening to voters,” and...
Donald Trump has apparently solved one of the oldest problems confronting presidents: What do you do when reality contains information you do not enjoy? You print a different reality. Enter Natalie Harp, Trump’s extraordinarily devoted aide, sometimes nicknamed the...
Donald Trump has encountered a deeply troubling foreign-policy problem. Iran will not do what he tells it to do. This is particularly confusing because Trump has already tried nearly everything in his diplomatic toolbox: threats, bombing, more threats, name-calling,...
There is something almost too perfect about Donald Trump’s Reflecting Pool fiasco. The pool was supposed to become a patriotic showpiece for America’s 250th birthday—clear water, handsome blue bottom, suitable for photographs, speeches, flags, and perhaps a tasteful... 
