Pam Bondi ranks among the country’s worst attorneys general, but it appears she was fired for not being bad enough.

President Donald Trump’s displeasure didn’t owe just to her embarrassing bungling of the Epstein files. By many reports, he was livid over her lack of success in prosecuting his enemies.

The list is long: Former FBI ...Read more

President Donald Trump gave his first prime-time address to the nation laying out his goals in the war on Iran more than a month into the conflict. Better late then never, we suppose.

Alas, we don’t have any clearer idea of how the president intends to achieve those goals than we did before the speech.

Will we allow Iran to keep its weapons-...Read more

President Donald Trump said this week that he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO. This isn’t the first time he has lambasted the defensive alliance. For what it’s worth, Congress passed a law in 2023 explicitly preventing a president from unilaterally withdrawing from the bloc. But whether or not the United States ...Read more

President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are quickly ridding themselves of “RINOs” – dumping the party rejects to face the music from voters or encourage them to join the Democratic Party instead.

The term “RINO” – Republican In Name Only and typified by Mitt Romney — is now a dirty word in conservative circles as Trump moves ...Read more

One of the most powerful addictions of our times is also one of the most vexing to treat. After all, there’s a good chance you’re on this drug. It’s called social media.

Like anything potentially addictive, social media isn’t particularly good for anyone and might be uniquely bad for kids. And yet, I use it all the time, a small dose of...Read more

Farewell to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was fired Thursday, joining the pantheon of President Donald Trump’s awful cabinet secretaries who learned the hard way that there’s no pleasing a fundamentally unreasonable person.

As terrible as Bondi was, her ultimate failing was that she didn’t go far enough for Trump in trashing the ...Read more

There are moments when a president must project resolve. The American people expect it. Adversaries watch for it. Allies depend on it. But resolve without clarity is not leadership; it is risk.

President Donald Trump’s recent address on Iran was forceful in tone, but thin in substance. It leaned heavily on certainty and dominance yet offered ...Read more

In President Donald Trump's first term, many members of his Cabinet were establishment conservatives with tangible, executive experience who were willing to follow the president far to the right … but had lines in the sand they were unwilling to cross. In this second term, Trump has prioritized surrounding himself with those who are unwilling ...Read more

Even if I hadn't been privileged over the years to enter the White House countless times, always with reverence for its two-century history, I'd have been upset to tears last October by the sudden sight of excavators' claws ripping the 123-year-old East Wing to shreds. And by the knowledge that President Donald Trump planned a ballroom three ...Read more

Pam Bondi was loyal, turning the U.S. Department of Justice into a tool for partisan and political retribution, just as President Donald Trump intended. In the end, though, that wasn’t enough to keep her job as U.S. attorney general. Her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files no doubt played a big part in her departure.

Now Bondi gets to be ...Read more

The Republican crack-up is coming — not over the Iran war and not today. But the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is a harbinger of what’s to come for the GOP in 2028.

Let’s stipulate the caveats. Events, domestic and overseas, will leave their stamp on the next presidential campaign, and whom the Democratic and Republican parties ...Read more

A month into the Iran war, the United States has offered a 15-point plan to end the hostilities, which includes a broad range of demands on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, and guarantees on freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. is also insisting on Iranian commitments to stop funding and supporting its network of proxies...Read more

California built its tradition of open government — including for citizen boards that set the rules for such functions as automotive repair and security guard licensing — precisely to keep well-funded corporate interests in check. Lobbyists and special interests are constantly scheming to defeat the will of the majority. Now they are able to...Read more

In the last year there have been a record number of legislative efforts to block military actions, threatened or carried out by the Trump administration, that are seen as illegal or unconstitutional. This has included President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war against Iran. Some of these efforts in Congress led to close votes in the House ...Read more

Had a satirist first imagined what President Donald Trump would want for his presidential library, the cartoon surely would have looked exactly like what Trump apparently actually does want: a massive Miami skyscraper erected at a size intended to dwarf all surrounding buildings and topped with the all-caps “TRUMP,” shimmering in all its LED...Read more

How worried are America's wealthy about the possibility they'll be hit with a higher tax for Social Security?

Plenty, judging from the endless creativity of their proposals to improve the program's fiscal condition by cutting benefits rather than raising revenue (typically from our most affluent taxpayers).

The latest run at this fence comes ...Read more

President Donald Trump must have come to the Supreme Court for oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case hoping to hear “his” justices inveigh against what he has called illegal aliens. Instead, he heard a lot about the original meaning of the 14th Amendment.

Whether the president knew it or not, originalism sounds the death knell ...Read more

For those who can't tell the difference between a selfless freedom fighter and a murderous terrorist, the FBI last week offered clarity.

In addressing the motivation for the attempted bombing on March 12 of Temple Israel, the bureau's Detroit office laid the blame squarely on the influence of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terror group and Iran ...Read more

Vaping — the use of e-cigarettes to inhale nicotine, flavorings or marijuana through a battery-powered device — has become so commonplace that many now take it for granted.

But recent news from Bel Air High School, where at least four toilets had to be replaced after students tried to flush vaping cartridges, is a reminder of both reckless...Read more