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Frank Bruni: Devin Nunes is dangerous

Rep. Devin Nunes obviously fancies himself Jason Bourne. To sneak onto the White House grounds for that rendezvous with an unnamed source last week, he switched cars and ditched aides, vanis...

David Brooks: Can elephants learn from failure?

The Republican health care bill failed because it was a bad bill that had almost no authentic public support. It took benefits away from tens of millions of vulnerable people to give tax bre...

Donald, this I will tell you

We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician? Don’t w...

Did a foreign power collude with a presidential campaign?

The greatest political scandal in U.S. history was not Aaron Burr’s shooting of Alexander Hamilton, and perhaps wasn’t even Watergate. Rather it may have been Richard Nixon’s secret efforts ...

Calling on ‘a few good men’ to rein in a president

Memo To: Secretary of Defense James Mattis, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ...

Trump budget slashes critical humanitarian aid

First, a quiz: What is the most important crisis in the world today? A.) President Trump’s false tweets that President Barack Obama wiretapped him. B.) President Trump’...

GOP health care plan leads to the end of an era

The Republican health care bill could represent the moment when the old order of American politics completely cracks up, the end of a certain era in American politics. That era be...

Connecting the dots between Trump and Russia

I enjoyed the show “House of Cards” but always felt that it went a bit too far, that its plot wasn’t plausible. After seven weeks of President Donald Trump, I owe “House of Cards...

Seven years later, still no real alternative from GOP

According to Politico, a Trump confidante says that the man in the Oval Office – or more often at Mar-a-Lago – is “tired of everyone thinking his presidency is screwed up.” Pro ti...

She’s 17, needs birth control and a check up. What now?

LEWISTON, Maine – She is 17 years old, has an alarming itch “down there” and has come to the family planning clinic because she doesn’t know where else to go. Sara Hayes, a nurse ...

Who will defend Enlightenment this time around?

Being around a college classroom can really expand your perspective. For example, last week we were finishing off a seminar in grand strategy when one of my colleagues, Charles Hill, drew a ...

Trump is a fake savior betraying his supporters

Dear Trump voters, You’ve been had. President Trump sold you a clunker. Now that he’s in the White House, he’s betraying you – and I’m hoping that you’ll recognize that betrayal a...