Open Thread

Is Donald Trump trying to goad Joe Biden into running for president? Sure seems that way. He just repeated his claim that Biden is the Democrat he'd most like as…

Having just arrived back from the land of Les Bleus, I thought I'd take a look at how Trump's open treason was playing with the folks back home. As my…

I'm not denying that Scott Pruitt's downfall is satisfying. We all want to see these bastards get theirs, and as Amanda Marcotte says, liberals needed something to celebrate after the…

The headline is my crack at showing the proper level of civility apparently required when pointing out to certain of our fellow citizens that they are monsters -- a notion…

Most people prefer simple narratives to complex ones, which is why Nicholas Sparks sells a lot more novels than, say, David Foster Wallace. It's also why, amid the falling debris…

Anyone who thinks the controversy over Trump's immigration policies will cost Republicans bigly in November had better sober up. The issue is doing exactly what Trump wants -- firing up…

I have never for a moment thought that Melania Trump cared -- her resting face says "bored rich model" better than words ever could -- so I can only begin…

The family separation controversy cooled off for a few hours yesterday as Trump promised to sign an executive order ending the practice. What he did instead was declare we would…

More Trump performances, please, like the one he put on for House Republicans Tuesday night. They gathered with him to hear how to proceed with Trump's immigration fiasco but instead…

How dare you call Jeff Sessions a Nazi! Some people have been doing that, and he was quick to point out the difference: Nazis kept Jews from leaving, while Sessions…

The mainstream media, just as Trump foresaw, is making a fuss over his "historic" meeting with Kim Jong Un without pointing out that Neville Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler in Munich…

Trump is in Singapore now after laying a turd in the punch bowl at the G7 meeting in Quebec, a performance that has the chattering classes hoping that this, surely,…