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The Federal Prohibition on Marijuana Is On Borrowed Time
AP Photo/Josh EdelsonA marijuana plant is seen on Hippie Hill in San FranciscoIf you're a politician wondering whether you should try pot, I've got news for you: Everybody's doing it. Why not give it a...
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Don't Expect the Trump Scandals to Tie Up Neatly
(Sipa via AP Images)Trump speaks to reporters while departing from the White House on May 4, 2018.The Trump omniscandal—which is really four or five separate but related scandals swirling around each...
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Look What You Made Them Do
(Sipa USA via AP Images)Neo-Nazisa and white supremacists and other alt-right factions in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017If the last eighteen months have been defined by a single question, it...
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Forget the Deep State -- This Is the Trump State
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Donald Trump is seen through the window of his motorcade vehicle on May 15, 2018.Periodically over the last year and a half we've had cause to ask ourselves, "Is this it? Is...
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The Moral Compromise Republicans Made to Support Trump in 2016? It's Only...
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisPresident Donald Trump stops to look at supporters at a rally in Washington, MichiganIf you're a Republican, the last two years have asked a lot of you. First you were...
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Inevitably, Trump Declares He Is Above the Law
(Chip Somodevilla/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)President Trump walks across the South Lawn before departing the White House on June 1, 2018.On July 27, 1974, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed...
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Trump Unchained
(AP Photo/Luca Bruno)Donald Trump in Italy on May 27, 2017"You are a king," Donald Trump's father reportedly told him. And the thing about being a king is that nobody gets to tell you what to do.It's...
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Has Trump Overestimated the Cruelty of His Own Supporters?
AP Photo/Chuck BurtonPresident Donald Trump speaks with Pastor Franklin Graham in March. Graham is one of several conservative religious leaders to criticize the administration's family separation...
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Should Trump Staffers Be Shamed and Protested Wherever They Go?
AP Photo/Evan VucciSecretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White HouseIt's getting hard out there for a Trump staffer....
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The Liberal Backlash Is Coming
(AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)Demonstrators protest against the Trump administration's immigration policies on June 30, 2018, in New York.Among the many privileges certain Americans enjoy—along with the...
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Someday, Republicans May Reject Trump's White Nationalism — But Not Yet
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte speak during a news conference about immigration legislation at the Capitol on June 29,...
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Why Democrats Don't Need to Fear the Socialist Revolution in Their Midst
AP Photo/Seth WenigDemocratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez greets a reporter near Rockefeller Center in New York. Imagine this scenario: Republicans, after viewing dozens of polls...
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Will Voters Believe Trump's Economic Bluster?
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Trump boards Air Force One en route to Washington on July 29, 2018, after visiting Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.Absurd hyperbole has gotten Donald Trump...
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If You Think Trump's Racism Is Bad Now, Just Wait Until 2020
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Trump speaks during a rally on August 2, 2018, in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.If you're a white person who angers Donald Trump, you never know what particular insult he'll...
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Trump's Cabinet of Con Artists
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Trump speaks during a meeting with members of his cabinet on July 18, 2018.During the 2016 campaign, and from time to time afterward, Donald Trump would regale his...
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'Trump 2020: Truth Isn't Truth'
AP Photo/Andrew HarnikPresident Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White HouseDonald Trump is many things, but subtle is not one of them. So at at an event with the...
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What John McCain Wasn't, and What He Was
AP Photo/Cliff OwenSenator John McCain speaks to reporters on Capitol HillSenator John McCain occupies a larger space in the American political landscape than you could possibly expect for a politician...
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Trump Doesn't Want to Take Down the Elite. He Wants Their Acceptance.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)President Trump on June 6, 2018President Trump was not in attendance at John McCain's memorial service on Saturday, but nearly everyone else in official Washington was, from...
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Will Those Who Work for Trump Ever Face Accountability?
AP Photo/Andrew HarnikAttorney General Jeff Sessions, second from right, and Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, right, speak together during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House.The...
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All of Our Fears About Trump Are Coming True
AP Photo/Susan WalshPresident Donald Trump walks off of the stage after speaking at a fundraiser in Fargo, North Dakota.Every once in a while, amid the relentless assault on one's psychological well...
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