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May 5, 2020

Why Trump’s approach is not quite Lincolnesque

Amid the grandeur of an iconic monument, President Trump made a sweeping historical claim that eclipsed anything else he said.

May 1, 2020

Corona conundrum: Finding elusive balance between saving lives and jobs

More than 62,000 Americans have died from Covid-19, and there are now more than a million cases in our country, despite the president’s early insistence that it could vanish by April.

April 30, 2020

New witnesses force media, Democrats to confront Biden allegations

The allegations against Joe Biden are finally breaking through a wall of media silence and political deflection.

April 29, 2020

Trump shelves briefings for now, spars one-on-one with press

Ari Fleischer remembers fiddling with the seating chart for the White House press room exactly once, moving Time and Newsweek a few rows back because their reporters rarely showed up. 

April 28, 2020

Trump rips ‘hostile’ media, cancels briefing, then holds press conference

Donald Trump is now fed up with the daily White House briefings that became the centerpiece of his presidency in the coronavirus era.

April 24, 2020

CDC chief contradicts Trump on misquoting charge over virus rebound

It was a moment that seemed to crystallize the increasingly contentious relationship between President Trump, his medical experts and the press.

April 23, 2020

Virus vertigo spins the news, pushing out almost everything else

These days we all spend most of our time talking, writing, thinking and worrying about the coronavirus

April 22, 2020

Trump, facing sinking polls on pandemic, targets legal immigrants

Never let a good crisis go to waste. President Trump is taking that approach, once popularized by Rahm Emanuel, in spades.

April 21, 2020

The president as insurgent: Why Trump is pushing protests in Democratic states

It’s beginning to feel like a culture war, like a Tea Party-style backlash against big government.

April 17, 2020

Why politicians can't just restart the economy

The media uproar over the power struggle between the president and the governors may well be focused on the wrong question.