In the wee hours of last Monday morning the president of the United States picked up his iPhone and rage tweeted four times at the...

The rank incompetence of Donald Trump’s response to the global pandemic will be studied for generations, analyzed and assessed as one of...

My political education began in the 1970s in South Dakota. An uncle served in the legislature as a Republican and later a top aide to a...

“A pandemic is a lot like a forest fire,” then-President George W. Bush said in 2005. “If caught early it might be extinguished with...

There is an unrelenting mathematical logic to the spread and impact of the COVID-19 virus. Denial of the logic is like playing Russian...

As a world-wide pandemic silently sulks its way across the globe pulling the international economy into recession or worse, it has become...

The greatest vulnerability for most politicians is not the unwise vote they cast a dozen years ago, or the youthful but still stupid...

Everyone who has studied the facts – a notable exception being the president of the United States – knows that Russian dictator Vladimir...

Two dominant themes prevail in the current presidential administration: corruption and incompetence. They work together well, one...

During the administration of President Warren G. Harding – until recently generally regarded as the most corrupt presidential...

The Senate has stumbled its way through Donald Trump’s trial and having acquitted the president Republicans are urging us to “move on,”...

Jim Lehrer, the old school journalist who helped invent a sane and sober television news program on public television that he co-hosted...

You may have heard a number of references this week to the Senate impeachment trials of two former presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill...

In his scathing takedown of the modern Republican Party – How the Right Lost Its Mind – the conservative former Wisconsin radio talk show...

I came of age in politics when it was considered a sin – a near mortal sin – to be caught in a lie or to be deemed guilty of a flip-flop....

Two old-school Republicans from Washington state have been in the news recently. And the political careers of William Ruckelshaus and...

You might have thought the modern Republican Party had reached its nadir back in 2016 when the party’s presidential candidate attacked an...

The cowboy humorist Will Rogers famously said, “I’m not a member of any organized political party . . . I’m a Democrat.” I celebrated...

The Trump defending Idaho congressional delegation was reminded yet again this week of the dangers involved in shielding a president who...

For decades the national Republican Party literally owned the political debate over national security issues. Polls repeatedly indicated...