Before taking office, Donald Trump promised he would hire "the best people" for his administration. Yet, in less than seven months, he has brought in and then let go: Anthony Scaramucci, communications director Reince Priebus, chief of staff Sean Spicer, press...

From Will Durst (reprinted with permission)... Anybody remember when Donald Trump boasted, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone and wouldn't lose voters”? Now that we’ve seen him operate for six months, we have a pretty good idea how that would...

In a column headlined, "Why Does Donald Trump Keep Dissing Jews?," NY Times columnist Frank Bruni cites several incidents as evidence: the president seemingly going out of his way to leave Jews out of Holocaust Remembrance Day; his staying silent on a rash of...

Julie Garfield, daughter of legendary actor John Garfield, writes about the "witch hunt" that led to his death because he wouldn't name names during the "Red Scare" in the post-World War II era: Both the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator McCarthy’s...

Katrina Vanden Heuvel on the media's malpractice on Trump: One of the great ironies of the political moment is that President Trump’s sworn enemy has become, if not exactly an ally, an enabler of his agenda. For all of Trump’s griping about “fake news,” the mainstream...

I have to be careful what I say about this in open session, but here we go... While nothing former FBI Director James Comey said today on Capitol Hill will change anything about Trump's presidency, one moment stood out. It was when Comey was asked why he started...