Politics

After two years of Trump we may have overlooked the essence of his insanity: His brain sees only private interests transacting. It doesn’t comprehend the public interest.

While Sen. Rand Paul helped force the expiration of the so-called PATRIOT Act, it seems he is a better constitutional scholar than Barack Obama, who is not interested in the Fourth Amendment.

Trump can’t fix anything, certainly not his own credibility and lost leverage, and that makes his tenure a fusillade of fixations repeated ad infinitum.

Mueller’s findings, no matter what they may or not reveal, will largely determine the kind of government that emerges and functions after this investigation ends. They will have a monumental impact on the future of America.

While investigating a foreign defense contractor caught bribing U.S. Navy senior officers, the Justice Department informed the Navy that Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch along with hundreds of Navy personnel were suspected of accepting lavish gifts in exchange for classified materials.

If presidents must sometimes lie to defend important political values, then, it seems as though the good president must be both able to lie and able to lie well.

With Trump, there’s no longer American foreign policy. There’s only Trump’s ego.

The NAACP says the practice is disenfranchising thousands.

"The political establishment notwithstanding, the future belongs to progressives."

Over the last two decades, the Koch network’s major groups – AFP and Freedom Partners – have cumulatively spent about $120 million in independent expenditures supporting Republican candidates or opposing Democratic candidates.