Opinion: Trump is no longer even pretending to champion the working class
The most consequential moment from Donald Trump's glitchy interview with Elon Musk on Monday came during a discussion of government cost-cutting.
Opinion: It’s time for Democrats to hold hands and jump
Ever since President Joe Biden's calamitous debate last month, many Democrats who've lost faith in his candidacy have been frozen, fearing mutually assured destruction.
Opinion: The chilling reason you may never see the new Trump movie
This week I finally got to see "The Apprentice," an absorbing, disturbing movie about the relationship between red-baiting mob lawyer Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump.
Opinion: Trump says abortion will be left up to the states. Don’t believe him
When Donald Trump was asked about the recent Florida Supreme Court decision upholding his adopted state's abortion ban, he promised that he would announce where he stands this week, a sign of how tricky the politics of reproductive rights have become for the man who did more than any other to roll them back.
Opinion: Biden’s age is a campaign problem, not a governing one
Last fall I found myself at a dinner party that included a former Biden administration official and a Democratic donor, and the conversation turned, naturally, to President Joe Biden's age and his prospects for re-election.
Opinion: America must face up to Israel’s extremism
Two far-right members of Israel's Cabinet — the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich — caused an international uproar this week with their calls to depopulate the Gaza Strip.
Opinion: MAGA has devoured American evangelicalism
Tim Alberta's recent book about the Christian nationalist takeover of American evangelicalism, "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory," is full of preachers and activists on the religious right expressing sheepish second thoughts about their prostration before Donald Trump.
Opinion: Biden is trying to jolt us out of learned helplessness about Trump
After Joe Biden's recent speech marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection and laying out the democratic stakes of the next election, Mitt Romney pronounced himself unimpressed.
Opinion: A Texas case shows that abortion ban exemptions are a sham
Soon after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, horror stories started emerging of women denied medically urgent abortions for pregnancies gone dangerously awry. In response, the anti-abortion movement developed a sort of conspiracy theory to rationalize away the results of their policies.
Opinion: Farewell to George Santos, the perfect MAGA Republican
Should the blessed day ever arrive when Donald Trump is sent to federal prison, only one of his acolytes has earned the right to share his cell: George Santos, who on Friday became the sixth person in history to be expelled from the House of Representatives, more than seven months after he was first charged with crimes including fraud and money laundering. (He's pleaded not guilty.)
