Abraham Lincoln famously assembled a “team of rivals,” filling his cabinet with some of the most capable—and, at times, contentious—figures in American politics. He understood that strong leadership is not about surrounding oneself with agreement, but with challenge. Debate sharpened…

There is an uncomfortable irony at the heart of today’s politics: the loudest champions of so-called “Christian nationalism” often claim that Islamic extremism represents everything America must oppose—while echoing many of its underlying impulses. To be clear, there are vast…

What does Donald Trump have to do to cross a red line with his supporters?

It’s not worth debating the so-called finer points of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. To borrow from the fictional lawyer Vincent Gambini: “Everything that guy just said is bullshit.” When the president wasn’t inflating his accomplishments or sidestepping…

Elon Musk repeatedly denied his connections to Jeffrey Epstein – that was bull shit. He also repeatedly claimed that Donald Trump was in the Epstein files -that was true. He also claimed that many powerful people were eager to have…

Let’s be clear about one thing up front: no serious person is claiming that ICE officers are equivalent to Nazis. But the sight of federal agents stopping people on the street and demanding “papers” understandably triggers uncomfortable historical echoes. That…

Last week President Trump promoted an AI-generated video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. When the backlash hit, Trump claimed he hadn’t shared the clip personally—that a staffer had done it by mistake, and that he only intended to…

With the constant deluge of bad news, who’s to say if God might not be considering another flood, or at least a little well-aimed divine retribution? Open any newspaper or scroll any screen and the evidence piles up: wars that…