The New York Times, an organization devoted to gathering and publishing information, doesn’t want people to gather or publish information inconvenient to it. A group of Trump-supporting operatives has been finding and archiving old social media postings of Times employees and other journalists for use in the ongoing brawl between the president and the press. […]

By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post The country, the Democratic Party and ABC News, which will supply the moderators, escaped a second night of debates in September when Tom Steyer failed to qualify for the debate by falling short of the 2 percent criteria in a fourth poll. At least the 48-hour marathon will not […]

WASHINGTON — It was probably inevitable that we would have a “retirement crisis” as hordes of baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) sprint and stumble into their “golden years.” But it’s a fake crisis, even though it’s already becoming a staple of journalism and politics. It presumes that most Americans can’t afford to […]

The desire to ensure technological reliability and, ultimately, combat superiority, guided the Trump administration’s mid-July decision to terminate U.S. plans to sell the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Turkey. Give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan his due. On the global diplomatic stage, Erdogan can display power-player skills diplomats can admire, no matter what they tell […]

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s inability to defend the defensible is simply mind-numbing. Even when the president is doing the right thing, he and his team can’t seem to get out of their own way. Take the administration’s perfectly reasonable decision to implement a new rule to ensure that immigrants seeking permanent residency in the […]

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” So says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part 2.” Though often regarded as a Renaissance-era lawyer joke, the line is actually a backhanded compliment to the legal profession. Dick, a follower of the rebel Jack Cade, knows that before their insurrection can succeed, […]