“There’s no way that Donald Trump sits on his hands while Biden undermines his legacy,” said Timothy Naftali, a New York University historian. “He is likely to be a fundamentally disruptive presence in American political life as an ex-president. And that is, once again, norm busting.”

The activists who supported Biden’s campaign — often as a last resort when their favored candidates fell away — surely recognize his difficulties, but they are unlikely to cut him much slack. Nor should they.

The Trump administration is the first U.S. administration to actively and relentlessly confront China using lawyers, guns and money — legal sanctions, military operations and economic policies.

The Democratic Party should remember that, for many minorities, our greatest aspiration is simply to be regular Americans — treated no worse, but no better either.

A prolonged presidential election and political gridlock are the backdrop to the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision on Thursday, when Powell and his colleagues aren’t expected to offer much in the way of new information.

The pollsters got it wrong again. Some claimed going into Tuesday’s election that Joe Biden had an unbeatable margin of 17 points in some states. Pundits claimed Republicans would lose between five and 15 seats in the House. It appears they’ve picked up a few. And because final results will not be known until states […]

As I write this, we don’t know the winner of the 2020 presidential race. By the time you read it, we still may not know. There are votes to be counted. What seems very apparent, though, is that Democrats did not enjoy the romp that they and some political prognosticators had expected. They were running […]

With vast numbers of Americans isolated at home and on their devices 24/7 against a backdrop of escalating unemployment and rampant stress, the climate is ripe for tech abuse. Just as stay-at-home orders have jeopardized the safety of people trapped with physically abusive partners, this new social-distancing way of life made would-be victims of nonconsensual pornography more vulnerable to attack.