Open Thread

Despicable as he is, Trump is unquestionably great at one thing: Playing the media. That's the answer to the perpetual question, "How did Trump win?" and it explains a lot…

The ignorant will always be with us, but I'll be satisfied when they go back to being ashamed of it. As it stands, "Ignorant and Proud of It" is the…

The problem with arguing from facts is that you have to take the time to gather them. So now we have a study that reaches the same conclusion Delawareans reached…

A lot of otherwise right-thinking people seem to think that the Trump controversies involving Russia on the one hand and porn stars on the other are distractions from the real…

If you're having a race to the bottom, you shouldn't invite a guy who makes his living underground. Don Blankenship, America's most lethal boss, went ballistic this morning when Trump…

To everyone else, "refuse to lose" is a sales-motivational cliche. To Republicans, it's an operating system. So even if you're Roy Moore, and you lost not just the election but…

Washington is running out of fainting couches, as dozens of media figures have joined conservative snowflakes in expressing shock, shock at Michelle Wolf's routine Saturday night at the White House…

The jokes write themselves. The NRA convention, the ultimate gathering of self-defined good guys with guns, has banned their fetish objects for a speech by VP Mike Pence because the…

Pundits are still buzzing over Trump's disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday's "Fox & Friends," which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne…

The pressure's definitely getting to Cheetohlini. This morning Trump called in to his top advisers, Fox & Friends, and got so unhinged they had to cut him off before he…

An Axios article looking at ballot security in the run-up to the midterms notes that Delaware is one of only 5 U.S. states that lacks any paper trail of voting…