Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Allison Riggs beat the election-riggers. She, her campaign and an army of allies – the Democratic Party, election attorneys and nonpartisan groups like Common Cause – fought a costly, arduous, six-month battle that finally prevailed over Jefferson Griffin and Republicans who were determined to overturn an election he lost. But it was a close call.…
Times change. Years ago, back in 2016, Ann Coulter wrote a book ‘In Trump We Trust.’ Last year, before the election, she said she’d vote for Trump despite the fact she couldn’t trust him. Times changed. Trump’s back in the White House, now, holding cabinet meetings – and they’re odd meetings: One by one the…
Bald head, hair shaved on both sides above his ears, skull shining, pedantic, certain he’s right, sitting in a restaurant Steven pointed across the room at the TV set above the bar. ‘There’s your friend John Bolton on TV. Criticizing Trump. You ought to tell him to shut up.’ I glanced at the TV, shrugged…
Terry Sanford would applaud his protégé J.B. Pritzker’s fiery, fighting speech to New Hampshire Democrats last weekend – a full-throated denunciation of Trump that electrified the crowd and jolted the political world. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, declared, “It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once. Never before in my life have I called…
We’re trapped in a twisted time. The latest Fox News’ poll showed Trump dropping – so did half a dozen other polls last week. That wasn’t a shock. But in the next breath a stumble reared its head: The media pointed at practical but paper-thin explanations for Trump’s decline. Years ago, Arthur Finkelstein, an unusual…
Trump’s fans cheer when he wields his Sharpie and signs sweeping executive orders. Abolish DEI! Impose tariffs! End environmental regulations! Deport immigrants! Eliminate the Department of Education! Fire federal employees! Ban medical research! Punish woke foundations and colleges! Abolish PBS! Ban radical left-wing ideology! But what orders could future Presidents sign when they whip out…
A risky move, landing in court, spurred a brawl – but give Trump credit: He’s outsmarting both Democrats and the press. Defying a judge’s order was a silly mistake. Trump could’ve made his case in court, won, and shipped Kilmar Garcia to an El Salvador prison. Instead charging out on a limb he threw ‘due…
“Move fast and break things” is the motto of the tech bros at DOGE – which should be called the Destruction of Government Experiment. That’s how Trump governs. He breaks things. He broke the Western alliance against Putin. He broke his promise to end the war in Ukraine “even before I become President.” His tariffs…
Trailing by 734 votes, losing his Supreme Court race to Democrat Allison Riggs, Jefferson Griffin headed to court, contesting the election. Nothing wrong with that. Fifty years ago Jack Hawke – who went on to become Republican Party Chairman – ran for Congress, lost by 900 votes, headed to court. Tom Ellis, his lawyer, later…
Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…
A reassuring lesson from our trip to Germany and Czechia is that dictators, despots and tyrants…