The Democratic trouncing of the Republicans and the revulsion against the Trump administration are beyond anyone’s imagination.
Sometimes a candid photograph captures a moment in a presidency, and the character of the officeholder, so tellingly that you get a penetrating portrait of an era.
He zeroes in on legal loopholes and the assumption that our leaders – and their families – will be not be voracious scam artists.
It’s a perfect (taxpayer-funded) relationship. She thinks he’s amazing. And he agrees.
The poem’s famous sex scenes have been excised, sapping erotic power from the female characters. Odysseus’ moral ambiguity is gone, too.
There was barely a peep from Republicans on Capitol Hill about his batty stew of a speech. You could almost hear their fervent wish: Please, Donald, move on!
America’s beloved first president famously wouldn’t tell a lie. The current one can’t stop telling lies.
As America approaches its 250th birthday on July 4, I want to reclaim my faith in its decency.
On the site where Martin Luther King jnr gave his “I have a dream speech”, the US president promised to turn the water “American flag blue”. The outcome is the perfect metaphor for an unreflective president.
After a week bristling with lurid revelations, it’s clear that no matter how much the US president wishes him away, Jeffrey Epstein is haunting Trump and is persisting as a national obsession.
