What legal scholars are seeing behind the smoke screen is far darker. They say the single most radical thing the court did wasn’t confirming birthright citizenship, but instead it was the dismantling of barriers that had long insulated a broad sector of the federal government from raw presidential control.

I was at this local wine-tasting thing in my small community of the Key Peninsula the other day when the subject of politics came...

With President Trump’s bungled war in Iran, bungled renovation of the Reflecting Pool, not to mention bungled tariff war with the whole wide world,...

Donald Trump has been unofficially (but reliably) diagnosed as a pathological narcissist. And now his egomania is consuming the July 4 holiday and the...

The idea that you can love America and be a great patriot while being a know-nothing about our form of government or reflexively denouncing it is pretty much BS.

This is the physical (and possibly permanent) expression of the violence being done to the nation itself—so ironic as we attempt to celebrate 250 years of our liberation from monarchy.