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It is perhaps the central irony of our politics today: We live in an incredibly polarized and partisan moment, but our political parties have never been weaker.
Americans, God bless 'em, revere the Constitution even if they disagree on what it says.
The debate over whether or not President Trump encouraged the man who set out to slaughter Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh really isn't a debate at all. It's a shouting match.
Whether the packages delivered to leading Democrats and liberals turn out to be functioning bombs or dummy devices intended to send a message, the effect is largely the same: American politics is descending further into the logic of the vendetta.
The biggest mistake the Trump administration made in the Jamal Khashoggi case occurred while Khashoggi was still alive: letting Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, think he could get away with something so heinous — and so heinously stupid.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's big reveal that she's got a little Native American DNA in her deserves all the mockery it's getting. But I just want to use it as an excuse to explain why I hate the way we talk about DNA and identity.
In the wake of the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a lot of people are suddenly very mad that the Senate is "undemocratic." I'm unmoved.
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley surprised virtually everybody this week when she announced she'd be resigning from her post at the end of the year.
Confirming Brett Kavanaugh was the best outcome at the end of a hellish decision tree that left the country with no ideal option.
As I write this, it remains unclear whether Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Why is Brett Kavanaugh so upset? It's a question few ask because so many already think they know the answer.
President Trump began his address to the United Nations this week with some of the boilerplate braggadocio that forms the basis of his rallies. The audience laughed.
This has become grotesque.
Even if it could be proven that Christine Blasey Ford deliberately slandered Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — and I am not saying that's the case — that act of willful character assassination wouldn't the worst thing about this horrid chapter in American life.
There are very few things I'm sure of in the latest, and worst, chapter in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation saga.
Why did Clinton do it?
"It was very disappointing to see President Obama break with the tradition of former presidents and become so political," Vice President Mike Pence told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. He was complaining about Obama's broadside against President Trump.
Supreme Court confirmation hearings have mostly been theater for a long time. The dismaying thing about the latest episode — the Brett Kavanaugh show — is that it became the theater of the absurd.
I know the news cycle has moved on to fresher outrages, but I'd live to revisit last week's culture war freak out, because I think the wrong people freaked out.
I don't know Rep. Ron DeSantis, the GOP nominee for Florida governor. I met him once. He seemed nice enough.
