Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American” is the highest earning politics blog on Substack, the platform I use to publish “Wide World News.” She is significantly more commercially and…

Here is the story of the circumstances under which I met Donald Trump, as told in my most recent book, “How to Beat Trump: America’s Top Political Strategists On What It…

The least dynamic president in a generation has to defeat a pandemic, revive an economy, save the planet from climate change, rationalize and humanize the immigration system, rebuild our infrastructure,…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every story in the Wide World of News can be categorized as either Ignatiusian or Maddity (or both). Ignatiusian: From the once-upon-a-normally-time era, where we all hung on…

Starting with Ronald Reagan, only one recent U.S president was not as smart as he thought he was. Detractors of presidents of both parties are flat wrong: Stupid people don’t get…

The new Democratic president has a massive agenda on domestic policy, powered by the party’s progressive wing, which is more ascendent than it was the last time a Democrat was…

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Does the former president maintain his silence after the Dominant Media (and maybe others) say his defense team (again) fell short of matching the work of the House managers –…

or once, the Gang of 500 scorecard is actually spot on. There might be one article of impeachment, but there are really five accusations, with verdicts that are now apparent:…

FIVE ACTUAL TAKEAWAYS FROM TUESDAY’S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL 1. However much the House managers are lionized as Greek gods; however horrific Donald Trump’s lawyers were; however much significance one wishes to…