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And yes, I’m talking about my snark and my stupidity here. This is one of those pieces you have to write occasionally because you’ve shortchanged the subject you’ve written about, you’ve shortchanged your readers, and you’ve shortchanged yourself in the process. I’m talking about the column I wrote ...

The New York Times on Tuesday published what it professes is The Great Summing Up of the horrors likely to be visited upon us by a second term of Donald Trump in the White House. The Washington Post did this story before, in early November: “Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control...

Donald Trump reassured his adoring supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, over the weekend that he will assume a new role: democracy’s defender.“If Joe Biden wants to make this race a question of which candidate will defend our democracy and protect our freedoms, and I say to crooked Joe—and he is crooked, the most corrupt president we’ve ever had—we will win that fight and we’re going to win it very big,” Trump said on Saturday. “Joe Biden is n...

“Much more to come, watch!” Trump wrote, before he separately suggested he could use the DOJ to go after his enemies.

Great at multi-tasking and fiercely loyal, the aides of PMs and premiers are curious, high-octane beasts – and little-known outside the corridors of power.

Great at multi-tasking and fiercely loyal, the aides of PMs and premiers are curious, high-octane beasts – and little-known outside the corridors of power.

Two republican majority anglo seats out of the census of minority. laws can do things as well as passion. i think we have the passion. we now have to get the laws or get rid of some things that are not even laws to make a difference. >> you know, politicians, tom, i think tend to be pretty self-interested. they want to get elected, stay elected, wield power. a generalization. theres something wild about watching the situation in which a collective effort on the part of democrats to further sort ...