Along with my On TAP comrade Harold Meyerson, I prize wordplay and puns. My favorite title in 2025 was a two-fer, for this piece about the plane that Qatar gave Trump: “Air Farce One: When Gift ...

These are the people on my mind heading into the winter holidays amid the regime’s ongoing immigration terror campaign, and whose stories and situations I want to highlight. Throughout 2025, The ...

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President Trump is on a roll. In the past couple of weeks, he’s named the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a new class of battleships after himself.

Assuming anything like free and fair elections next November, the Democratic wave would be sufficient to overcome Republican attempts at voter suppression, as was the case in 2018. But this time, the ...

How FBI Director Kash Patel undermines the FBI’s performance and credibility.

Contra again?

This would seem to be an opportunity for Democrats. Polling released at the start of August by End Citizens United found that ...

Add Republican objections to Trump’s China capitulations to the growing realm of defections from leaders of his own party.

Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.

With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and ...

On the surface, Donald Trump is disinterested in the nation’s abiding cost-of-living concerns. Everything is fine, the president insists, loudly if he has to. His shrinking economic approval ratings ...