It’s begun. We are having a debate over socialism.
Who knows what Trump will say about immigration next?
In the 1950s, the great neo-conservative intellectual Irving Kristol acknowledged Joe McCarthy’s stark failings, but famously refused to take the side of his critics. “For there is one thing,” he wrote, “that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesman for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing.”
Chinese threat isn’t just trade
We are currently engaged in a high-profile negotiation that may or may not succeed in getting the Chinese to buy more of our stuff.
Donald Trump’s Jerusalem Triumph
In the second century A.D., Jewish rebels who had stunned the Romans and liberated a portion of Judea overstruck imperial coins with images and a message of their own, “Year One of the Redemption of Jerusalem.”
Rosenstein has botched Mueller probe
Rod Rosenstein is doing a star turn as principled defender of the law, but he’s performed abysmally as deputy attorney general, and President Donald Trump would be fully justified in firing him.
Trump’s Nobel can wait
Who would have guessed that a Trump crowd 15 months into his presidency would be chanting, “Nobel! Nobel! Nobel!”
The Republican high-water mark
If Republicans aren’t losing their congressional majority this coming fall, they are doing a good job of acting like it.
No one likes a prig with an ax to grind
James Comey did it, naturally, for the children.
Mark Zuckerberg’s insufferable tripe
Once again, Mark Zuckerberg is sorry.
The founder of Facebook, who has apologized for privacy breaches throughout much of his company’s existence, is back at it, on a much larger stage than ever before.
Don’t Bork Gina Haspel
President Donald Trump’s pick for CIA director is about to experience a good Borking.
No one doubts her professionalism, and she’s been endorsed by Obama intelligence officials. Yet Gina Haspel’s long career at the agency, including extensive work undercover in the field, is getting blotted out by her reported involvement in the CIA’s black-site interrogation program, which has become a warrant to say anything about her.