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It's beginning to look a lot like August 2009 in reverse.
As you might have heard, Donald Trump tweeted at a judge. The commentariat shuddered at the effrontery of it, and some worried that the foundations of the separation of powers had been shaken. Trump's slam of Judge James Robart was undeniably crude and ill-considered, but it wasn't a threat to our republic.
If the law means anything, the Trump administration will succeed in overturning the so-called court ruling against its travel ban.
If President Donald Trump is a budding authoritarian, as his critics allege, one of the safeguards is Judge Neil Gorsuch.
The surefire way to bring the word "un-American" into vogue is to propose a restriction on immigration, no matter how minor.
The first week of the Trump administration has been a vindication of the American nation-state. Anyone who thought it was a "borderless world," a category that includes some significant portion of the country's corporate and intellectual elite, has been disabused of the notion within about the first five days of the Trump years.
The nation's foremost culture warrior is President Donald J. Trump. He wouldn't, at first blush, seem well-suited to the part. Trump once appeared on the cover of Playboy. He has been married three times. He ran beauty pageants and was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern radio show. His "locker-room talk" captured on the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape didn't, shall we say, demonstrate a well-honed sense of propriety.
The work of unraveling President Barack Obama's legacy is underway, but even if the Trump administration and a Republican Congress reverse every last law and regulation, they won't be able to touch the core of it.
The controversy over the nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has been, if nothing else, clarifying. We now know that working to give poor kids more educational opportunities is considered a disqualifying offense for the Left.
The best thing that happened to Donald Trump all week is that BuzzFeed published the raw Russia dossier about him.
President Barack Obama has finally had it with Russia. It only took eight years of cold reality — topped off by the Russian interference in the November election — to make the outgoing president almost cleareyed about the Kremlin.
Chicago concluded 2016 with an astonishing 762 homicides.
NAACP officials have already been arrested in an anti-Jeff Sessions protest. The Alabama senator's confirmation battle as attorney general is sure to generate lots of heat and very little light. He will likely prevail, but not before his name is dragged through the gutter in an execrable exercise in contemporary racial politics.
The city of Chicago is conducting a long, bloody experiment in what happens to a gang-ridden municipality in the absence of effective policing.
Realistically, the UN will always be a disappointment.
We've come a long way from Daniel Patrick Moynihan excoriating the U.N.'s 1975 "Zionism is racism" resolution in one of the finer exhibits of righteous indignation in the history of American speechifying.
Donald Trump was supposed to take over the Republican Party, but the question going forward will be whether the Republican Party takes over him.
A Christmas standard since the 1940s, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is an uncommonly catchy and witty song that is now — incredibly enough — controversial.
The Democrats have a simple explanation for Hillary Clinton's loss — the Russians did it.
Surely there were alarmists who thought 2016 might end in an undemocratic coup. But who predicted Democratic opinion leaders would be the ones agitating for it?
