Open Thread

It was a heckuva week for funerals. Aretha Franklin's, in Detroit, employed stirring eulogies, heartfelt performances, and more than 100 pink Cadillacs in a 10-hour celebration of her life and…

I'm starting to understand why Republicans aren't eager to replace Trump with Mike Pence: He's not only a dick, he's a kind of stupid one. He promised Wisconsin voters that…

While mainstream Democratic leaders timidly fail to oppose Trump's judicial nominees, a Massachusetts candidate for Congress shows how it should be done: Barbara L'Italien, the same woman who punked Fox…

Florida voters in both parties rejected the more centrist candidates in yesterday's primaries, and within hours GOP winner Ron DeSantis, a Trump favorite, was warning voters not to "monkey up"…

The Republican Party should ditch the elephant and replace him with a frog in a pot of water. Axios released the argument for that in the form of a spreadsheet…

This might be hard to believe, but there are even worse people than Donald Trump in the Republican Party. When the family of Sen. John McCain, who died last night…

You knew somebody was going to take the fall for the USS Trump hitting that iceberg Tuesday. If Trump were still on his game he'd turn this into reality-show fodder,…

Even Donald Trump seems to understand that he's finished now that both Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen are convicted felons; his Nuremberg rally in West Virginia was more subdued than…

A week ago the News Journal ran a front-page article on a confidential report on the state Auditor's Office and the performance of Kathleen Davies, who was second-in-command to elected…

The Great Security Clearance Purge has dominated headlines for the past couple of days, mainly because Trump is enjoying his unfettered power to punish people who displease him and it…

The underreported story of the midterms is the exodus of Republicans from elected office. Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report notes that one of every six incumbent Republicans is…

The New York Times got Trump's dander up yesterday with the story that White House counsel Don McGahn has spent something like 30 hours in interviews cooperating with to the…

Michael Gerson, the Bush speechwriter turned conservative WaPo columnist, writes a "no shit, Sherlock" column for the ages: Our republic will survive Trump, he intones, but it will never be…