Open Thread

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…

Josh Marshall addresses the only important question in American politics: The greatest conceit in public life today is the notion that we don’t already know President Trump is guilty. ...…

I really did try to ignore the Omarosa publicity tour, but give her credit -- she learned a few things from playing the foil on Trump's reality shows. Her slow…

Beyond its usual plagues of alligators, invasive snakes, sinkholes and crazy residents, Florida is in even worse shape than usual these days. Popular tourist beaches in places like Sanibel are…

Two months ago, the Democratic National Committee announced it would reject donations from the fossil-fuel industry. This uncharacteristically populist move lasted all of two months before the mainstream organization reversed…

When Jason330 wrote the other day that Ken Simpler must be a racist simply because he's a Republican, I probably wasn't the only reader who winced. But Jason isn't the…