Former WSJ'er, current NYT'er, and inspiration for a hilarious Saturday Night Live skit this weekend talks about her contrarian media life (and much else besides) on The Fifth Column.
When anyone says, "I'm for free trade, but it must be fair trade," they are really saying: "I am not for free trade."
The prison camp on the island of Cuba will remain open indefinitely.
The administration pushes harsh protectionist measures at the Montreal NAFTA talks.
It'll throw millions more immigrants under the bus than it'll save.
Trump tried to force end of Russian investigation back in June.
From Ron Johnson to Fox News and beyond, Team Red has replaced skeptical scrutiny of Obama-era executive branch activity with dimwitted counterpunching for Trump.
Their poison pill demands are making a deal nearly impossible.
Any excuse to try to censor the internet
The rhetorical war over the Justice Department's Trump/Russia investigation is beating a dead metaphor.
More Mexicans are leaving than coming to America.
Will the economic and social benefits of the solar panel tariffs outweigh their costs? Not likely.
The document gives us the most detailed take yet on the administration's $1 trillion infrastructure plan.
Everything you need to know about the Trump/GOP/Schumer/Pelosi/Democratic government shutdown of 2018 in a single tweet.
The Supreme Court agrees to hear challenges to Travel Ban 3.0
They voted to expand federal snooping. Now they're outraged about how it's used.
The president is who he is, and that's sad. But Congress has no excuse for not passing a budget and doing its job.
The president applies the term to any reporting that makes him look bad, regardless of whether it is accurate.
The guy who launched a movement running for president in 2008 and 2012 was not the guy from the notorious newsletters.
The crucial difference is not temperamental but institutional.
McCain and Jeff Flake are right to slam the president's juvenile rhetoric, but questionably blame Trump for global trends while neglecting the press crackdowns of his predecessor.
Sen. Claire McCaskill and her Democratic colleagues had a chance to check the Trump administration's surveillance powers on Tuesday. They failed.
The NSA's surveillance of international communications is not limited to "foreign bad guys on foreign land."
Republican leaders spent most of the Obama years attacking rising debt and massive spending. Now that they control the budget, they could not care less.
There's been little sign that those who despise Trump are beginning to understand that the only real solution lies in radically shrinking the state.
Centuries of mistreatment by the U.S. is a primary cause of Haiti's plight.
When offensive words are the story, why wouldn't they be in the story?
The whole point of America is that it doesn't matter where you come from. It matters what you do when you're here.
The escalating tit-for-tat over trade policy risks an all-out trade war.
Don't freak out about a slight fall in the number of federal safety inspectors.
Republicans took control of Congress in 2010, in part, by promising to kill earmarks. They might lose Congress in 2018 by bringing them back to life.
Hours later he walks it back.
When it comes to "opening up" the First Amendment, the president's bark is worse than his bite.
The "bloody nose" strategy favored by some in his administration is extraordinarily reckless.
With deportations on the rise, hundreds of houses of worship are joining the resistance.
How an independent regulatory agency is supposed to work
Citing Trump's "flawed legal premise," a federal court temporarily stops the administration from ending DACA.
That includes the president, who said marijuana legalization "should be up to the states."
President Trump and Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee want to help "forgotten" farmers. They won't be able to.
Still thirsty for attention and with no degrading jails left to run, Joe Arpaio seeks higher office.
These immigrants lived in the United States for nearly two decades before the administration revoked their protected status.
Nearly a year into his term, it's clear the president intends to flood the bog with energy mandates and subsidies.
Slowing the flood of new rules and rolling back old ones keep some Americans in the president's corner.
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