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If the impeachment effort isn't taking the nation by storm, the Democrats have an answer — blame it on Latin.
If there's one thing that elite opinion tends to agree about on the left and the right, it's that nationalism is a very bad thing. If anything, this view has become even more entrenched as nationalism has demonstrated its potency in recent years, from the election of Donald Trump to Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
Republicans have had trouble mounting an effective defense on Ukraine because they haven't put down their stakes on the most defensible ground.
California is staying true to its reputation as the land of innovation — it is making blackouts a routine feature of American life.
Republican senators will soon be receiving an invitation to tear apart the GOP ahead of the 2020 elections, and they are going to decline to accept it.
The Ukraine story hasn't been good for President Donald Trump, and there's only one way out — to get impeached, and the sooner, the better.
Andrew Yang, the tech entrepreneur and gadfly, has definitely cleared the bar for a successful cause candidate.
Barack Obama and Donald Trump are diametrically opposed figures, representing the categorical rejection of the other for his supporters, yet they share significant foreign-policy DNA.
There's a brewing constitutional crisis, and it is the Elizabeth Warren surge in the Democratic primaries.
Little did Dr. James Naismith know when he invented the game of basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891 that, more than a century hence, it would become beholden to its Chinese overlords.
After three years, we're still on the Russia story. To be sure, the locus has shifted 500 miles west from Moscow to Kiev, and now we are consumed with the Ukraine controversy rather than the Russia investigation, although it's essentially the same thing — a battle over President Donald Trump's legitimacy fought out with allegations of foreign interference.
Impeachment is about to make everything worse. If our politics seems overheated, our institutions beleaguered and our public debate degraded, just wait until we are in the midst of the impeachment debate.
Where's John Kelly when you need him? President Donald Trump's chief of staff, cast aside like so many of Trump's advisers, irked the president with his efforts to bring some discipline to him and his operation. But if there's one thing that's obvious from the Ukraine controversy, it's that the president could use more "no men."
Kids are powerful pawns. The catchphrase "for the children" has a seductive political appeal.
Never before has a boon to public health been met with such hysteria and ingratitude.
The talking point is all cued up if Kavanaugh votes against Roe: He's a misogynist showing his disdain for women yet again.
In the "fire and fury" phase of Donald Trump's presidency, everyone worried that he'd impulsively start a war with North Korea.
At least Bernie Sanders is an equal opportunity misanthrope. He doesn't like rich people, and it turns out he doesn't necessarily like poor people, either.
The fastest way to trend on Twitter, and not in a good way, is to say that the right to bear arms is a God-given right.
Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson has, to his credit, seized the initiative in the battle over whether Britain will truly exit the EU, and on what terms.
