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Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is Trump's pick for national security adviser.

Trump is creating a Bizarro World with Cabinet picks

June 2, 2019 at 5:05 p.m.

As low as my expectations might be for the Donald Trump presidency, he finds new ways to drop the bar even lower. Take his Cabinet nominees. Please. They aren't all...

Does the First Amendment protect fake news?

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Imagine that you have owned a family-friendly pizza restaurant for about a decade in an upscale northwest Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Suddenly, without warning, you're getting slimed by sickos on the...

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., speaks with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to members of the media during a news conference about private prisons Sept. 17, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Keith Ellison, Donald Trump and the question of accountability

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Republican President-elect Donald Trump, as everyone knows, launched his campaign with insults to women, Muslims, Mexicans and other minorities — and without apologies to anybody. He won election anyway. Now...

Hillary Clinton supporters wait for the Democratic presidential candidate to speak at a rally at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in March 2016 in Detroit, Mich.

Forget ‘identity’ politics. Voters still want to be asked for their votes.

June 2, 2019 at 5:03 p.m.

Should political candidates appeal to particular racial, ethnic or gender groups? Or should they broaden their message to appeal to all groups? Such are the questions that presidential campaigns ask...

Alt-right? All wrong. New haters, same old backlash

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Maybe now when I tell you that we're not in a postracial society, you'll pay attention, OK? The latest evidence includes an intriguing debate over how to identify the loosely...

President-elect Donald Trump during a campaign event at the Eisenhower Hotel in Gettysburg, Pa., on Oct. 22, 2016.

Don’t normalize Donald Trump, ‘abnormalize’ him

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Much has been said about how we Americans, particularly we Americans in the mainstream media, should not "normalize" Donald Trump. I think it's way too late for that. Look around....

Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump hold a street-side rally in front of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Calif., on Nov. 11, 2016.

How to cool voters’ anger? Pay attention to them

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

"Why," a reader recently asked after Donald Trump's stunning presidential victory, "don't you liberal mainstream media columnists get over it and write something positive to unify the country?" Why, I...

"NewsHour" co-anchor Gwen Ifill attends The Women's Media Center 2015 Women's Media Awards in New York in October 2015.

Gwen Ifill’s relentless optimism energized her success

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Like other friends and fans of Gwen Ifill, I did not expect to be talking about her in the past tense. Not this soon. The groundbreaking, award-winning "PBS NewsHour" co-anchor...

Campaign chair for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, leaves the stage after saying to her supporters that she will not come out on stage during election night at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York on Nov. 8, 2016.

Now it’s the Democrats who need an ‘autopsy’

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Want to get attention in the Big Apple? Try carrying a big Donald Trump campaign sign through Times Square. A network news producer and friend of mine happened to do...

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arriving at the Ciampino Airport on March 25, 2014.

How we ended up with our own Berlusconi

May 23, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

I will no longer mock my Italian friends for electing Silvio Berlusconi. Now I know how clownish but fabulously wealthy autocrats come to power in democracies that should know better....

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