(Warning: Spoiler at the end.) Is the next vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court sooner or later? Liberals despair. Trump’s…

The map is not the terrain. Students of the human psyche understand that people navigate this dangerous and confusing reality…

One of the straws in the wind that indicates that the Never-Trumpers are becoming uneasy, as they are cantilevered out…

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,…