The Oval Office is an intimidating place. More than once, I heard President George W. Bush talk about people waiting in the West Wing reception area who he knew were gnashing their teeth and waiting to give him a piece of their mind. But once they were ushered into the Oval Office, he said, they […]
Apart from a longtime cozy relationship with law enforcement unions, dialogue between the Republican Party and labor unions has been practically nonexistent. So it was to the surprise of both parties that then-candidate Donald Trump not only met with Sean O’Brien, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, but gave him a speaking […]
When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era that began with Napoleon’s final defeat in 1815 and ended with the onset of World War I in 1914. That was a century […]
President Donald Trump has made it clear he believes the war in Ukraine has devolved into a bloody meatgrinder, where neither side will reap anything but further death and destruction from continued fighting. “It’s time to stop this madness,” Trump said in his address to a joint session of Congress. “It’s time to halt the […]
As the end of the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term approached, the New York Times sounded an alarm: He has, America’s paper of record breathlessly intoned, “carried out a campaign of retribution that has little analogue in history.” Trump did indeed swear to be “retribution.” But that is too small a word to capture the magnitude […]
EAGLE PASS, Texas — More than a year after Texas soldiers fenced off and locked out Border Patrol agents from accessing the United States-Mexico border as thousands of illegal immigrants surged across, state authorities have unchained the gate and reopened the door to their federal partners, the Washington Examiner has learned. The return of President […]
After months of late-night threats, offline and online backchanneling, and eleventh-hour temporary reprieves, President Donald Trump has finally enacted 25% tariffs on imports from our two top trading partners, Mexico and China. In the process, Trump has made the highest-stakes gamble on his presidency, first and second terms. Trump retroactively paused tariffs on specific auto […]
With the 2026 election cycle approaching, speculation is reaching a fever pitch on whether former Vice President Kamala Harris will run for the open California governorship. Analysts cite the Sacramento perch, governing the nation’s most populous state, as a political path for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee to make another White House bid in 2028. […]
President Donald Trump commented on Thursday about Rep. Al Green (D-TX), the Democrat politician who interrupted his joint sessions address to Congress on Tuesday night. The president’s heavily critical comments came on the same day the House of Representatives voted to censure Green for his antics. Of Green, Trump said that the Texas congressman “should […]
A good political thriller is more precious than jewels, the Good Book says. Or it should, anyway, given that bad ones, like the poor, will always be with us. Who today would sit willingly through 2006’s The Sentinel, in which a there-for-the-paycheck Michael Douglas conducts a steamless affair with first lady Kim Basinger? Or Charlie […]
