Politics and its Discontents

Chip Franklin thinks he knows: Hamilton’s greatest fear was a foreign power controlling our president. A prescient warning for Trumpers; h...

You can always count on Chip Franklin to deliver: Afghan vet Lt Col Vindman said he felt safe going up against Trump because this was Amer...

Given the absurdity of the world these days, my passion for writing about it has waned. Fortunately, Chip Franklin provides ample material t...

There's nothing I need to write here: Quid pro quo is “You fix my window, I fix your door.” Extortion? “You do the thing, or I throw y...

Historian Alan Lichtman rails about the obvious corruption surrounding the entire Ukrainian extortion effort by Trump, and is stunned by his...

For the rest of us, the following is not only a summation of Trump's duplicity over his efforts to extort the Ukrainians for personal po...

Active Measures is the name of a new documentary about Donald Trump and his ties to the Russian mob. It is also a term used to describe a s...

Most right-thinking individuals (i.e., not Trump acolytes) would, I suspect, agree with David Gergen here.