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It was a Texas-size blowout. In the Texas Republican runoff on May 26, scandal-plagued, Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton crushed longtime Republican incumbent John Cornyn, 63.8 to 36.2. Thank you, Donald Trump.

For anybody who ...Read More

In my years covering Washington, one of the most impressive politicians I encountered is Lamar Alexander. Few people have a better resume: Senate, White House and Department of Justice staffer; two-term governor of ...Read More

Negative adjectives to describe Donald Trump could fill a dictionary. He is gross, disgusting, loathsome, shady, deceitful, amoral, crooked, cruel, mean, obnoxious, rude, disrespectful, selfish, heartless, uncaring, ...Read More

In one of the most famous, and funniest, lines of English poetry, Robert Burns draws a powerful lesson about a woman sporting a fancy hat in church one morning, ignoring the laughter prompted among those behind her by the ...Read More

I’m trying to return to the book I started writing a decade ago, and doing so has pulled my awareness of and relationship to the events of 2026 into the larger consciousness the book is struggling to address: What is ...Read More

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

Let’s listen again to these viral words, as they hover over the planet . . . as they hover over, good God, the future. Finally, finally, the ...Read More