By Robert Barnes The Washington Post The political world will soon be consumed by President Donald Trump’s choice to fill the nearly year-long vacancy on the Supreme Court. Incensed by the Republican-controlled Senate’s refusal to even consider President Obama’s nominee to fill the seat, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, Democrats are promising a bruising […]

by Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post There is a growing realization on the right and left and, most acutely, from the insurers and health-care providers that repealing Obamacare with the promise that something better will come along at some later date would be a policy and political disaster. Insurers would accelerate their withdrawal from exchanges, […]

NEW YORK — Two decades ago, I wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs that described an unusual and worrying trend — the rise of illiberal democracy. Around the world, dictators were being deposed and elections were proliferating. But in many of the places where ballots were being counted, the rule of law, respect for minorities, […]

“When the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.” — Barack Obama, AIPAC conference, March 4, 2012 WASHINGTON — The audience —overwhelmingly Jewish, passionately pro-Israel and supremely gullible — applauded wildly. Four years later, Obama took the measure of Israel’s back and slid a knife into it. People don’t quite understand the damage done to […]

It may be a long four years. We elected a president with few policy positions, and given to insults. Hopefully his staff will ease him from his Twitter account, and he can learn how governments can improve lives. A fear remains: Trump, in my opinion, seems mentally ill with narcissism. Trained as an ethicist and […]