Good Economic Results Include More Health Care Coverage

Thanks to James Hohmann of the WaPo’s Daily 202 for the following nice summary of recent economic good news from the...

On Last Night’s “Commander-in-Chief” Forum

Good notes this morning on last night’s Commander-in-Chief Forum.  The media figures from whom many or most people take their views...

Do the Press’ Clinton Rules Stoke Public Cynicism?

Do the Press’ Clinton Rules Stoke Public Cynicism?

There was a lot of noise this last week about the AP’s report on the Clinton Foundation. They found nothing...

Donald Trump: Thug

Yesterday the man that the GOP establishment is largely still supporting mused out loud about what “the Second Amendment People”...

EJ Dionne on Trump and Khizr Khan

#Trump‘s lack of decency is disqualifying, his lack of empathy frightening, his egotism & cluelessness astonishing.https://t.co/f7ZSPF7LFg — EJ Dionne (@EJDionne)...

Who are Trump’s “Us” and “Them” Today?

It’s hard for Trump to be seen as a protector when it isn’t clear whom he would be willing to...

Trump Campaign Wheels Falling Off?

It’s been a bad few days for Donald J Trump (couldn’t happen to a nicer guy).  Just a few stories:...

Thinking Like a Grown-up

Thanks to Nancy LeTourneau at Political Animal for reminding us of the virtue of thinking like the Tortoise (slowly and...

Donald Trump: Unifier

…from the Hilliary Clinton campaign:

Trump on Nuclear Weapons: Stunningly, Frighteningly Uninformed

This from physicist Jeremy Bernstein in the NYRB, on Donald Trump’s notions about nuclear weapons.  Yikes! The Trump Bomb Jeremy...