Facing demands to fire Donald Rumsfeld, his secretary of defense, in early 2006 President George W. Bush told the press,…

So here I am in my wife’s room at St. John’s hospital in Santa Monica. She’s been recovering from a…

There are two kinds of power — let’s call them hard and soft. Hard power has to do with authority,…

Last week, after President Trump’s historic decision to back out of the Paris Climate Accords, effectively keeping his promise to…

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who is to guard the guardians themselves? Juvenal’s phrase has been going through my head for…

About a week ago, four Arab countries — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates — declared an…

Much has been made of President Trump’s asking his former FBI director for “loyalty” allegedly being improper — in Beltway-speak,…

James Comey put the bureau in bureaucrat at Thursday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearings. We think of FBI agents as courageous….

Perhaps the most interesting moment of the hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday occurred when former FBI Director James…

I could have flown to Vegas and back, or I could have driven ten miles in Los Angeles, or I…