Thanks to Donald Trump's intervention, we have here a bi-partisan template for Trump’s approach to the legal system: break the law, lose your case, get reamed out by a judge, then carry on with business as usual.

He wants Ukraine to cease to exist as a sovereign and independent country and to return to being a vassal of the Kremlin.

Newsrooms depicted in serious films about journalism like All the President’s Men portray reporters and editors as earnest men and women arguing about getting the facts straight. The Post was more like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Rhetorically, “the environment” is a vague and spacious box that contains things that are hugely important, plus things of everyday importance and things mostly banned for looks. By boxing them together, you can avoid having to justify each one. But each proposal does need to be justified.

Twenty years ago (Nov. 2005), The Elway Poll collaborated with Glen Hiemstra of futurist.com to ask Washingtonians to look ahead to the year 2025. Now here we are. How is that future working out?

Religion is, like most else, a mixed bag. But the cracks in the hegemony of the official story of secular modernity and materialism seem to me both worth noting and refreshing.