April 5, 2017 The Susan Rice saga: Murky allegations and media reluctance The Susan Rice situation is murky, but one thing that’s crystal clear is that she’s changing her story.
April 4, 2017 Beyond the media bubble: Even Trump Country has mixed feelings about budget cuts One of the many failures of journalism in 2016 was the utter disconnect with the millions of frustrated Americans who helped put Donald Trump in office.
April 3, 2017 Media score a triple-bogey presidency, but Trump is just getting started The mainstream media scorecard is in: Donald Trump’s presidency is stuck in a giant sand trap.
March 31, 2017 Trump rips the Freedom Caucus: How real is his Twitter threat? It was hardly a well-kept secret that President Trump was ticked off at the most conservative wing of the House GOP for torpedoing his health care bill.
March 30, 2017 In a sharp contrast to Trump, press goes positive on Pence When a new administration takes office, the key players usually draw positive profiles to introduce them to the public—sometimes so positive that other journalists deride them as “beat sweeteners.”
March 29, 2017 How House intel probe turned Devin Nunes into a piñata Six months ago, I doubt that most of the country had heard of Devin Nunes.
March 28, 2017 Deadlock: Can Trump win over conservative purists -- or do deals with Democrats? In the end, President Trump was stymied by the bitter warfare that for years has divided the Republican Party into two camps: the purists vs. the pragmatists.
March 27, 2017 Mission Impossible: Why Trump's health care compromise was never going to pass There’s plenty of blame to go around, but one thing is clear: The ObamaCare battle was Mission Impossible from the beginning, because Donald Trump ran against Republican orthodoxy on health insurance.
March 24, 2017 Muddy waters: Trump surveillance story polluted by partisanship, media overreach This whole Trump/FBI/Russia/wiretap/surveillance/leaking/intercept thing has become a monumental muddle.
March 23, 2017 Smugness watch: Some liberals say it's okay to hate Trump voters There is, in some precincts on the left, an earnest attempt to understand Trump voters, those strange creatures that are standing by their man, and figure out how the Democrats might win them back.