Intelligence officials warned today that Russia recently hacked into our local and state computer networks. This could compromise our voting infrastructure. Intelligence officials believe our adversaries will try to help Trump, possibly by casting doubt on the voting results.
- October 20, 2020
While we are all understandably buffeted by the craziness of politics these days, no historians will ever write about this election without noting that over it hangs the pall of more than 220,000 Americans dead of Covid-19 and more than 8 million infected, and that numbers, once again, are rising.
- September 11, 2020
While there was continuing fallout today from the story that Trump lied to the American people about the seriousness of the coronavirus, the breaking stories were mostly about securing the election. Overwhelmingly, the stories today were about controlling the flow of information to voters.
- November 15, 2017Yielding to one of the basest of human impulses, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are subverting Western society and democracy.
- August 29, 2017As Hurricane Harvey raged, the president tried to use the disaster as cover. It may have worked.
- July 11, 2017Trump debases the country, and we will all have to get our hands dirty.
- June 22, 2017The parallel between Nixon and Trump is almost exact.
- June 15, 2017The attorney general's testimony before the Senate intelligence committee was more smoke and mirrors.
- June 14, 2017A lawyer helps to break down the different ways of arguing what constitutes obstruction of justice.
- June 9, 2017Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz share a penchant for praising their own indispensability.