With Trump, there is no such thing as rock bottom. So, assume the worst is yet to come.

Trump lit the fuse for the riot, but the explosion got help from Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.

Trump must not get away with his refusal to supply witnesses and documents to the House.

This political grandstanding is a violation of their oath of office.

Republicans are making dubious noises about the debt.

Look to Alabama’s GOP primary — and Michigan, where Kid Rock might be a contender.

The congressional Republican caucuses need to be substantially reduced.

Joe Biden’s moderation will bring much-needed normalcy to the country.

The GOP picked a bad year to invite a mugging.

Authoritarianism is a long way from what the Constitution’s Framers had in mind.

The high court’s functioning will be damaged by the pandemic of national cynicism that the likes of Lindsey Graham exacerbate.

People must let their representatives know just how dangerous this man is.

A movie tells the story of Kermit Gosnell.

What a misery it must be to be Donald Trump.

Here are reasons to be confident Trump will lose.

Vernon Madison might become a footnote in constitutional law.

New national security adviser John Bolton favors war against North Korea and Iran.

The Missouri Republican seizes the title, a monumental feat.

The former vice president has a talent for embarrassing himself, but not the country.

Those who watched Tuesday’s mess expecting a train wreck were not disappointed.

Economic sanctions can be as damaging as prison incarceration.

For 30 years, confirmation fights over justices have become ever more divisive.

The president’s rhetoric continues to be an ongoing national embarrassment.

As Trump turns and turns in a widening gyre, his advisers are filled with passionate intensity.

The deadline looms on threatened tariffs of 25 percent on imports of cars and auto parts.

President Biden challenges the country to rediscover its source of greatness.

Elation is in order because a gross national embarrassment has been narrowly avoided. But curb your enthusiasm.

Something vital to democratic culture is waning.

The debt could well grow to 100 percent of GDP within a decade.

Joe Biden has an opportunity to show Trump what a policy of national strength looks like.

Senate Republicans are terrified of the president.

The Republican Party has changed its principles since the Clinton years — specifically to suit Trump.

Luckily, the courts have stymied President Biden’s disdainful approach to the law. Now he’s ignoring the Vacancies Act, and a supine Senate is letting him.

Sen. Ben Sasse’s new book argues Americans are unhappier, more isolated and less fulfilled.

Chris Coons is equipped to repair the recent damage to our prestige and security.

The senator is a make-believe legislator who hasn’t recoiled from the mere suggestion of using a declared emergency to set aside the separation of powers.

Courts have been judiciously reluctant to referee tussles between the political — the legislative and executive — branches. Making an exception here is merited.

His plan for $12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by the trade war illlustrates that socialism is for the well connected. But, then, socialism favors those adept at manipulating the state.

Forces and events beyond U.S. shores get a vote, and they might test a Biden administration early and gravely.

There is plenty worth noticing and trying in the finishing sprint.

Why did Parliament agree to leave one of the most momentous decisions in British history to a referendum?

This phenomenon creates a problem of facilitating their reentry into society.

Churchill thought modern warfare obliterated the "personal factor." He later disproved that. Now we have another example of the power of individual fortitude.

The Senate has become a theater of performative behaviors by senators decreasingly interested in legislating, and preoccupied with using social media for self-promotion.

The former president has the power of influence only if he is perceived to have it. That perception will dissipate if his interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive.

Trumpism borrows from fascism but lacks its heft.

Sometimes it does seem that history is not one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.

Today’s intellectuals are their own benighted mob.

By imposing tariffs on Canadian aluminum, Trump shows who the real socialist is these days.

The Ken Burns treatment is rightfully detached in the face of difficulty.

Ten years later, the issue is still defining our elections.

J.D. Vance, who opposes aid for Ukraine, calls to mind another Republican senator from Ohio, who counseled against joining the fight against Nazi Germany.

This Sunday marks the 75th anniversary of the second, and hopefully last, use of an atomic bomb against another country.

It is frightening that Biden does not know, or remember, what he recently did regarding an immensely important policy: the executive order on student loan debt.

Ukrainians are looking to the West, toward the community of nations of shared Enlightenment values.

There are lessons to be learned from Rep. Cheri Bustos’s success among Trump voters.

The responsibility of mending the republic ultimately lies with the citizenry.

Republicans will get so tired of Democratic winning.

He recognized that separation of powers retains its vitality only when lawmakers are more interested in their own authority than in the preferences of a president.

Before Trump’s second summit, it’s time to note all that went wrong at the first.

The president’s postmodern mentality is akin to that which has closed the academic mind.

A recent episode illuminates the decay of government.

The rail service is an example of government waste.

What the New York Times’s “1619 Project” missed.

He may whet Americans’ appetites for a grown-up leader who shuns sycophants.

The GOP has to choose its destiny.

Biden needs to emphatically prove to voters he is not intimidated by the arson-inclined inhabitants of the wilder shores of American politics.

The future’s vital, and only, constituency is the conscience of the present.

Why should “viability” be the dispositive criterion for abortion?

Bill Weld could upset the 2020 race.

The next president’s foreign policy challenges demand competence and historical awareness.

The most lurid crime in the year that lit the fuse that blew up Jim Crow.

Low expectations of government competence, although increasingly reasonable, are intolerable regarding this election.

An anxious nation longing for competence might turn to Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo.

A new book details the strongman’s ramshackle Russia.

The melancholy dimension of his life was not that he failed to attain the presidency, for which he was not well-suited, but that in 1996 in quest of it, he left the Senate he loved and where he...

Progressives are picking up where Trump left off.