On August 14, Trump said: “After we finish defeating Iran … pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.” He had already claimed the U.S. had “total control” of the strait and suggested America might “keep it.” (CNN Transcripts)...
Donald Trump may have discovered a fascinating new feature of the United States Constitution. Apparently, somewhere between freedom of speech and the prohibition against quartering soldiers, there is a tiny footnote reading: “If the president gets nervous about the...
Donald Trump promised Americans something wonderfully simple about foreign policy: No more stupid wars. Apparently, the important word was “more or perhaps stupid” as this war is yet another and certainly stupid. The United States entered the war with Iran in...
Trump’s War on Science For generations, America operated under the quaint assumption that science was useful. Scientists developed vaccines, explored space, predicted hurricanes, improved agriculture, treated cancer, invented technologies, and occasionally performed...
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... 
