Trump Administration

Opinion Headlines

Trump Administration. “The Kushner-Cohn Ascendancy.” [The Trump White House has more conservatives than Steve Bannon.] 4-14-17
Trump Administration. “’You’re Fired,’ Trump Should Tell Cordray.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman. [Under a dubious statute, the CFPB head can be dismissed only for cause – but there’s plenty of it.] 4-14-17
Trump Administration. “Does Steve Bannon Have Something to Offer?” by Peggy Noonan. [In 2014 the beleaguered White House aide raised important moral questions about today’s capitalism.] 4-15-17
Trump Administration. “Behold the Master Conspirator.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Adam Schiff and Cater Page have in common cluelessness and ambition.] 4-19-17
Trump Administration. “Highway From the Endangerment Zone.” [Scott Pruitt is right to avoid a fight over an anti-CO2 EPA finding.] 4-19-17
Trump Administration. “Freud’s Government Shutdown.” [Maybe it’s time to kill the filibuster for appropriations.] 4-25-17
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Next 200 Days.” [The White House needs far more discipline to sell tax reform.] 4-29-17
Trump Administration. Dodd Frank. “MetLife’s Systemically Important Case.” [Trump’s failure to stop Obama’s appeal could limit his policy choices.] 4-29-17
Trump Administration. “’Nationalist’ Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word.” By Walter Russel Mead. “Trump will be successful if he puts U.S. interests first – while still helping to maintain global order.] 5-2-17
Trump Administration. “Not Draining the Swamp.” [The latest budget deal is mostly a win for government as usual.] 5-3-17
Trump Administration. “Give Trade Paranoia the Heave-Ho. By George Melloan. [Advice for Trump: Tell Bannon to hit the showers, revive TPP, and undo Obama’s economic legacy.] 5-3-17
Trump Administration. “Be Careful What You Wish For, Washington.” By Karl Rove. [The press, Democrats and Republicans get what they want. They won’t be happy.] 5-4-17
Trump Administration. “Health Reform’s House Breakout.” [The GOP needs to show the country – and Trump – it can govern.] 5-4-17
Trump Administration. Religion. “Religious Liberty Reincarnation.” [Trump’s executive order doesn’t live up to its hype or criticism.] 5-5-17
Trump Administration. “Here Come the Trump Judges.” [The White House moves to fill vacancies on the appellate courts.] 5-9-17
Trump Administration. “Obstruction of the Executive.” [Democrats peddle an absurd standard of FBI accountability.] 5-15-17
Trump Administration. “The Methane Rule Canary.” [A Senate defeat shows the cost of eroding Trump approval.] 5-15-17
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Pretty Good China Deal.” [Modest trade benefits for both sides, even if they were overhyped.] 5-15-17
Trump Administration. “The Trump Trade Team’s Vocabulary Problem.” By Chad P. Bown and Alan O. Sykes. [It’s not clear that officials understand the meaning of ‘reciprocity’ and ‘most favored nation.’] 5-15-17
Trump Administration. “Who Needs the Daily Press Briefing?” by Joshua Spivak. [Ending it would be good for everyone, except the president.] 5-17-17
Trump Administration. “A Republican Survival Strategy.” [The best defense against Trump scandals is to pile up policy victories.] 5-20-17
Trump Administration. “Deregulators Must Follow the Law, so Regulators Will Too.” [As the Labor Department acts to revise the Fiduciary Rule and others, the process requires patience.] 5-23-17
Trump Administration. China. “How China Managed to Muffle the Voice of America.” By Sasha gong. [The Foreign Ministry warned VOA’s Beijing correspondent against ‘interference.’] 5-24-17
Trump Administration. “Acosta’s Fiduciary Duty.” 5-25-2017
Trump Administration. Big Govt. “The Ivanka Entitlement.” [Democrats are already calling a $25 billion subsidy too stingy.] 5-26-17
Trump administration. “The White House Mess.” [A shakeup needs to start with some self-reflection at the top.] 5-31-17
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Tweets vs. the World.” By Daniel Henninger. [Washington’s politics have become campus politics. Opposition now is everything.] 6-1-17
Trump administration. “The News You Didn’t Hear.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Reporters only want to talk about Russia, instead of what Team Trump is getting done.] 6-2-17
Trump administration. “Unsolicited Advice for Callista Gingrich.” By Adam O’Neal. [Convince Trump the Holy See can be a serious partner in U.S. Foreign policy.] 6-2-17
Trump Administration. “The Buck Stops Everywhere Else.” [Trump undermines his own travel ban and Justice Department.] 6-6-2017
Trump Administration. “You’ve Been Cleared for a Faster Landing.” [Trump’s air-traffic spinoff would be a great flight forward.] 6-6-2017
Trump Administration. “Where Have All the Inspectors General Gone?” by Joseph E. Schmitz. [The Pentagon is without a permanent watchdog – and so are the CIA and NSA. Trump should fix this fast.] 6-7-17
Trump Administration. “The Death of Obama’s Slush Funds.” 6-8-17
Trump Administration. “In Iran, Radio Liberty Doesn’t Live Up to its Name.” [The Persian-language service too often parrots state media and doesn’t give Israel a fair shake.] 6-12-17
Trump Administration. Defense. “The Trump Budget Still Shortchanges The Military.” By Mac Thornberry. [After the stagnant ‘70’s, Presidents Carter and Reagan boosted spending by double digits annually.] 6-12-17
Trump Administration. “Fighting Poverty Isn’t Brain Surgery, but Ben Carson Can Do Both.” By Jason L. Riley. [‘I don’t get upset when people say horrible things,’ the HUD secretary says. ‘People don’t like change.’] 6-21-17
Trump Administration. Defense. “Congress and Obama Depleted the Military.” By Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney. [The Trump budget would increase spending only 3%. With today’s threats, that’s not nearly enough.] 6-21-17
Trump Administration. (cf. “The Ivanka Entitlement.”) “The Blackstone Entitlement.” [Steve Schwarzman illuminates the family leave debate.] 6-24-17 (cf. #26, here, “Ivanka.”)
Trump Administration. “The Trump Labor Board’s List.” [One study says the Obama NLRB overturned 4,559 years of legal precedent.] 6-29-17
Trump Administration. “The Making of Steve Bannon.” (Bookshelf by Barton Swain.) [Devil’s Bargain.” By Joshua Green.] [A Series of investments in Hong Kong video gaming companies introduced Steve Bannon to a ‘hidden world’ of frustrated young men.] 7-18-17
Trump Administration. “The Trumps and the Truth.” [The best defense against future revelations is radical transparency.] 7-18-17
Trump Administration. “Sessions Hangs In There. [Trump needs the Attorney General more than he realizes.] 7-21-17
Trump Administration. “The Kushner Statement.” [The President’s son-in-law sets a disclosure example on Russia.] “Can Republicans Govern?” [Some Senators want to talk forever about health care. Time for a vote.] 7-25-17
Trump Administration. “Why Jeff Sessions Recused.” [The AG wasn’t weak. He was following the law and sound advice.] 7-27-17
Trump Administration. “Priebus Wasn’t the Problem.” 7-29-17
Trump Administration. “Kelly Sends a Message.” [The new White House chief of staff gives the Mooch the boot.] 8-1-17
Trump Administration. “The White House C-Words.” By Daniel Henninger. [Terms unheard from Anthony Scarmucci: credibility, coherence and consistency.] 8-3-17
Trump Administration. “Kelly’s Boot Camp for Presidential Aides.” By Karl Rove. [Trump’s new chief of staff knows how to impose discipline – if the president lets him.] 8-3-17
Trump Administration. “Can Kelly Conquer the White House Chaos?” by Peggy Noonan. “The new chief of staff has the confidence of a general and the power of the last available grown-up.] 8-5-17
Trump Administration. “All the President’s Men and Their Styles of Masculinity.” By Crispin Sartwell. [Trump may be the first man with his particular swagger to make it to the White House.] 8-5-17
Trump Administration. “Mueller Can Avoid an Iran-Contra Repeat.” By C. Boyden Gray. [He should proceed quickly to get the facts out. So should congressional investigators.] 8-8-17
Trump Administration. “McMaster and the Commander.” [The NSC adviser is the latest target of Steve Bannon’s media friends.] 8-9-17
Trump Administration. “Unmasking Samantha Power.” [We still don’t know why Obama officials needed to know the names of so many Trump officials.] 8-12-17
Trump Administration. “Republicans for Richard Cordray.” [Trump will pay a price for not firing the Obama holdover.] 8-12-17
Trump Administration. “Coal Makes a Comeback.” [Trump’s policies and exports to Europe are helping the industry.] 8-17-17
Trump Administration. “The ‘Resistance’ Goes Lower.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Green groups are attacking staffers merely for working in Trump’s government.] 8-18-17
Trump Administration. “All the President’s Advisers.” [Steve Bannon all but dares Trump and Kelly to fire him.] 8-18-17
Trump Administration. “Refighting the Civil War.” [Once was enough, as Robert E. Lee understood.] 8-18-17
Trump Administration. “After the Bannon Presidency.” [Trump can’t govern with a Breitbart coalition. Does he see that?] 8-19-17
Trump Administration. “Steve Bannon Isn’t Going Away.” By Walter Russell Mead. [He aims to defeat the ‘globalist’ crew by pushing China into the 2018 campaign.] 8-22-17
Trump Administration. “Good Riddance to Steve Bannon.” By Karl Rove. [The country is better off with him out of the West Wing, but now Trump has to step up.] 8-24-17
Trump Administration. “Steve Bannon’s Revenge.” By Wm. McGurn. [The anti-Trump response seems bent on outdoing the president’s excesses.] 8-29-17
Trump Administration. “I Guess We’re All McCarthyites Now. By Philip Terzian. [A congressman insults John Kelly’s service – and nobody notices.] 9-11-17
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Hurricane Rebuilding Job.” [A construction labor shortage will add costs and time to the recovery.] 9-11-17
Trump Administration. “Reining in Mr. Sessions.” [A victory in Congress against the revived civil asset-forfeiture program.] 9-18-17
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Western Firefighters.” [Interior reverses years of neglect on forest management.] 9-19-17
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Too-Big-to-Fail Punt.” [Treasury abdicates on MetLife’s Sifi designation.] 9-27-17
Trump Administration. “A Return to the Conservation Ethic.” (The Weekend Interview with Ryan Zinke by Kimberley A. Strassel.) [The interior secretary wants to restore the vision of Gifford Pinchot and use public lands ‘for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.’] 9-30-17
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Latest Casualty.” [The President doesn’t like cabinet members who get bad press.] 9-30-17
Trump Administration. “FEMA’s Foul-Up in Puerto Rico.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [The emergency plan depended on generators but diesel was not delivered.] 10-2-17
Trump Administration. “In Hurricane Relief, 2 out of 3 Ain’t Good.” By Tevi Troy. [When it comes to natural disasters, a president is remembered for faltering, not for succeeding.] 10-3-17
Trump Administration. “America Will Return to the Moon – and Go Beyond.” By Mike Pence. [The U.S. is falling behind in the final frontier. The National Space council will help remedy that.] 10-5-17
Trump Administration. “John Kelly’s Heroes.” [The White House chief of staff teaches a lesson in grief and sacrifice.] 10-20-17
Trump Administration. “Philanthropy Booms in the Trump Era – but It Also Gets Political.” By James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley. [Such advocacy fails to provide direct and tangible benefits to individuals in need.] 11-18-17
Trump Administration. “The Trump Treasury’s Disturbing Regulatory Turn.” By Peter J. Wallison. [It would give a Dodd-Frank agency powers that even the Obama administration thought too dangerous.] 12-7-17
Trump Administration. “The Trump Regulatory Game Plan.” By Neomi Rao. [Message to businesses and families: It’s OK to plan for the future.] 12-14-17
Trump Administration. “Another Escalation in the Judicial War.” By Ilya Shapiro. [ What will happen when a Senate majority votes in unison against every presidential nominee?] 12-18-17
Trump Administration. “The Trump Doctrine, in Theory.” [Realism about rising threats but some policy disconnects.] 12-19-17
Trump Administration. “The Book of Bannon.” [Trump’s divorce from his former aide is good for his Presidency and the GOP.] 1-5-18
Trump Administration. “Trump and Dow 25,000.) [A portent of growth but a bad measure for politicians to tout.] 1-5-18
Trump Administration. “Jeff Sessions’s Marijuana Candor.” [The AG is forcing legalizers to square federal and state law.”] 1-6-18
Trump Administration. “The Trump Paradox.” By Daniel Henninger. [This era’s most disliked president has produced a successful first year in office.] 1-18-18
Trump Administration. “The CBO Is the Tail Wagging the Dog.” By J.T. Young. [How the ObamaCare mandate sank repeal, then saved tax reform.] 1-18-18
Trump Administration. “Charles Is in Charge.” [Schumer previews life for Trump if Democrats retake Congress.] 1-20-18
Trump Administration. “A Tale of Two Shutdowns.” [Trump tries to limit harm to the public, unlike in 2013.] 1-22-18
Trump Administration. “Get Food Stamps Out of the Candy Store.” By Paul R. LePage. [Maine wants a waiver to stop SNAP paying for sweets and soda.] 1-24-18
Trump Administration. “A Rogue Treasury Department Turns Toward the 1930s.” by Peter J. Wallison. [The president shouldn’t allow an Obama appointee to guide housing finance policy toward disaster.] 1-24-18
Trump Administration. “The Aftermath of Schumer’s Shutdown.” By Karl Rove. “Whoever closes the government loses, at least in the short run. Ask Ted Cruz.] 1-25-18
Trump Administration. “The Rob Porter Mess.” [A fiasco that hurts part of the White House that was working.] 2-10-18
Trump Administration. “An Honest Federal Budget Would Help Control Spending and Debt.” By Glenn Hubbard. [Lawmakers argue over policies, but no one wants to be held accountable for overall priorities. 2-13-18
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Big Public Works Dig.” [Permitting and other reforms are a major policy breakthrough.] 2-13-18
Trump Administration. “The Deficit Problem in a Chart.” [(chart) “Entitlements vs. Defense”] 2-13-18
Trump Administration. “Kelly and the Chaos.” [The people who want him fired don’t want a better White House.] 2-14-18
Trump Administration. “Why Some Stops Are a Cut Above the Rest.” By R. Richard Geddis. [Trump’s infrastructure plan would improve highway amenities.] 2-20-18
Trump Administration. “A New GOP Entitlement.” [Some Republicans want to raid Social Security for paid family leave.] 2-28-18
Trump Administration. “The White House Family Business.” [Jared and Ivanka have to decide if they’ve become political liabilities.] 3-1-18
Trump Administration. “Trump vs. Jeff Sessions.” [If he really wants FBI answers, why not declassify everything.] 3-1-18
Trump Administration. “The Cohn Departure.” [The tariff mess has cost President Trump an important ally.] 3-7-18
Trump Administration. “Apres Cohn, le Deluge?” by Kimberley A. Strassel. [Trump’s top economic adviser departs, and the administration’s grown-ups worry.] 3-9-18
Trump Administration. “A Not So Liddell Problem.” [The front-runner for chief economic adviser has bad policy instincts.] 3-12-18
Trump Administration. “Pompeo’s Promise at State.” [Trump gets a top diplomat who shares his policy views.] 3-14-18
Trump Administration. “Kudlow Into the Breach.” [Trump needs his new economic chief’s focus on policies for growth.] 3-15-18
Trump Administration. “Tom Perez’s Fiduciary Flop.” [An appeals court rules that another Obama regulation is illegal.] 3-19-18
Trump Administration. “John Bolton for National Security.” 3-23-18
Trump Administration. “John Bolton Is No Bugaboo.” By Walter Russell Mead. [He believes the U.S. must be prepared to act alone, but Trump will take convincing.] 3-27-18
Trump Administration. “In for a Penny, in for Impound.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [How Trump and the congressional GOP can undo the worst of the omnibus.] 3-30-18
Trump Administration. “A Trump Choice for Veterans.” [Shulkin favored the status quo of limited health-care options.] 3-31-18
Trump Administration. “Citizenship and the Census.” [Justice wants the data for more race-based gerrymandering.] 4-2-18
Trump Administration. “Thank You, Jeff Sessions.” By Wm. McGurn. [A capable U.S. attorney is a far better choice than a second special counsel.] 4-3-18
Trump Administration. “Trump, Amazon and the Post Office.” [The President is firing at the wrong target if he wants to save money.] 4-3-18
Trump Administration. “Bolton Faces a Dangerous World.” By Walter Russell Mead. [He joins the chaotic Trump team amid the greatest uncertainty since Truman’s era.] 4-10-18
Trump Administration. “Republican Spending Reprieve.” [Congress can claw back some of its spending with rescissions.] 4-10-18
Trump Administration. “Who Needs a Secretary of State?” [Democrats are trying to block even Trump’s security cabinet.] 4-19-18
Trump Administration. “Pompeo and Rand Paul Circumstance.” [The nominee advances despite a Senate Foreign Relations farce.] 4-24-18
Trump Administration. “Ronny Jackson in the Mosh Pit.” [Trump has ill-served his nominee to run Veterans Affairs.] 4-25-18
Trump Administration. “Trump’s ‘Forgotten Men and Women’ Include Prisoners.” By Jared Kushner. [The Administration urges Congress to make it easier for released inmates to re-enter society.] 4-25-18
Trump Administration. “Road Testing the 2019 Resistance.” [Tester’s smears against Ronny Jackson will e standard procedure.] 4-27-18
Trump Administration. “The Deep State Weaponizes Vetting of Trump Appointees.” By Sean M. Bigley. [Unaccountable Pentagon officials block a security clearance for a would-be White House aide.] 5-2-18
Trump Administration. “Justice’s Antitrust Humiliation.” [Judge Leon blows away the federal case against AT&T-Time Warner.] 6-13-18
Trump Administration. “Pompeo on What Trump Wants.” By Walter Russell Mead. [An interview with Trump’s top diplomat on America First and ‘the need for a reset.’ ] 6-26-18
Trump Administration. “Pruitt Drowns in the Swamp.” [The permanent green government takes out Trump’s deregulator.] 7-6-18
Trump Administration. “A Worthy Pardon for the Hammonds.” [Trump corrects a federal injustice against two Oregon ranchers.] 7-11-18
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Merger Appeal to Obama.” [Justice wants liberal judges to block AT&T-time Warner.] 7-14-18
Trump Administration. “Why an Antitrust Farce Must Continue.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [In politics, a blunder like the government’s AT&T merger lawsuit must be hugged to death.] 7-14-18
Trump Administration. “Endangered Species Scare.” [A 1970s law gets a modest implementation review. Panic ensues.] 7-27-18
Trump Administration. “Trump Is Right About Clearances.” By Sean Bigley. [Preferential treatment for former officials doesn’t improve national security. It creates a caste system.] 7-30-18
Trump Administration. “The New Tariff Bureaucracy.” [Want a steel exemption? Meet your Commerce Department overlords.] 8-7-18
Trump Administration. “They Won’t Sink Zinke.” By Kimberley a. Strassel. [Environmentalists will find the interior secretary a harder target than Pruitt.] 8-10-18
Trump Administration. “Revenues Are Higher.” 8-11-18 (“… not falling revenues from tax cuts…”)
Trump Administration. “Don McGahn’s Quiet Achievement.” [The departing White House counsel helped remake the judiciary] 8-30-18
Trump Administration. “Nikki Haley’s Example.” [The Ambassador got along with Trump even when she disagreed.] 10-10-18
Trump Administration. “’That’s What You Want to Hear.’” [At least Trump is honest about his lousy new gift to ethanol.] 10-11-18
Trump Administration. “Jeff Sessions’ Successor.” 11-8-18
Trump Administration “Jeff Sessions’s Exit Interview.” By Judith Miller. [The departing attorney general leaves as gracious as ever, and doesn’t regret his controversial recusal.] 11-9-18
Trump Administration. “A Treasury Misfire.” [A misguided insurance gripe could kill the pro-growth Job 3.0 bill.] 11-29-18
Trump Administration. “The ABA Strikes Back.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [After a demotion from Trump, the lawyer’s guild smears judicial nominees.] 11-30-18
Trump Administration. [Nauert Gives Hope to Journalists.] By Dovid Efune. [They insist she’s not qualified (to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations) because she’s worked in their profession. That’s far too modest.] 12-13-18
Trump Administration. “Mulvaney Into the Breach.” 12-15-18
Trump Administration. “The Mattis Repercussions.” [Why Trump’s handling of Syria and the Pentagon this week is so damaging.] 12-22-18
Trump Administration. “The Phony Shutdown War.” [Trump and Democrats put political symbolism over policy substance.] 12-24-18
Trump Administration. “The Phony Attack on William Barr.” By Michael B. Mukasey. [If the criticism is serious, it amounts to a demand that only the ignorant be considered for high office.] 12-26-18
Trump Administration. “Policing ‘False’ Claims.” [Justice calls out a scheme to exploit a federal whistleblower law.] 12-27-18
Trump Administration. “The Hidden Cost of a Government Shutdown.” By Fred C. Light. [The Trump administration plays it down by counting only employees formally on the federal payroll.] 12-28-18
Trump Administration. “Barr for the Presidency” [Some lessons for the left and right on constitutional grounds.] 1-16-19
Trump Administration. “The Shutdown and the Next Election.” By Karl Rove. [Both parties need to think bigger than this fight – they should be thinking of 2020.] 1-17-19
Trump Administration. “To End the Shutdown, Try Thinking Big on Immigration.” By Robert M. Gates. [Both parties are to blame for this embarrassing impasse. Yet a sensible solution may be possible.] 1-19-19
Trump Administration. “Judicial Scramble Drill.” [The white House walks away from a bad deal but harms a good nominee.] 2-1-19
Trump Administration. “Bill Barr’s Hot Mess.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [He arrives at a Justice Department that is in desperate need of an infusion of credibility.] 2-15-19
Trump Administration. “Citizenship and the Census.” [Can the Commerce secretary overrule the career bureaucracy?] 4-23-19
Trump Administration. “Should Noncitizens Be Represented in Congress?” by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Richard Raile. [That is the deeper political and legal question behind today’s Supreme Court census case.] 4-23-19
Trump Administration. “A Real Attorney General.” [Bill Barr gets smeared for refusing to duck and cover like Loretta Lynch.] 5-2-19
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Blunt Ambassador to Berlin.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Richard Grenell isn’t apologizing, though he’s ruffled even pro-American feathers.] 5-7-19
Trump Administration. “What ‘America First’ Means to Pompeo.” By Walther Russell Mead. [The secretary of state elaborates on Trump’s slogan, appealing to the Founder’s vision.] 5-14-19
Trump Administration. “International Law Backs The Trump Golan Policy.” By Michael R. Pompeo and David Friedman. [For decades Syria has defied a U.N. mandate to negotiate with Israel.] 5-15-19
Trump Administration. “’Did You Bring your Handcuffs?” [At least Bill Barr has a sense of humor about the partisan furies.] 5-16-19
Trump Administration. “Bull Durham at Justice.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Bill Barr’s latest appointment reminds us how the department should operate.] 5-17-19
Trump Administration. “Census Target: John Roberts.” [Liberals spin a memo to influence the Chief Justice in a crucial case.] 6-2-19
Trump Administration. “William Barr’s Fresh Air.” [The AG is taking flak because he’s asking questions others won’t.] 6-2-19
Trump Administration. “Deflating a Trump ‘Scandal.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [An email from Amy Klobuchar shows that officials acted on the policy merits.] 6-7-19
Trump Administration. “How to Put Citizenship Back in the census.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Gilson B. Gray. [The 14^th Amendment gives the Trump administration the justification it needs.] 7-5-19
Trump Administration. “Unalienable rights and U.S. Foreign Policy.” By Michael R. Pompeo. [The Founders’ principles can help revitalize liberal democracy world-wide.] 7-8-19
Trump Administration. “Nationalism Is Necessary but Insufficient.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Trump’s approach helps win allies in Asia. But it isn’t a basis for world order.] 7-9-19
Trump Administration. “Prosecuting Alex Acosta.” [Democrats try to blame the Labor Secretary for Jeffrey Epstein.] 7-10-19
Trump Administration. Census. “Sanctuary Cities Get a Census Bonus.” [Localities where migrants live – or are detained – will get a decadelong windfall of federal dollars. 7-17-19
Trump Administration. “Pompeo Gets Religion.” [“The State Department is holding its second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom …] 7-18-19
Trump Administration. “Gene Scalia’s Winning Record.” [Trump’s Labor pick has the legal experience to navigate the bureaucracy.] 7-20-19
Trump Administration. “A Bad Budget Deal.” [Trump can call Pelosi’s bluff over the federal debt ceiling.] 7-22-19
Trump Administration. “Accountability for Epstein’s Death.” [Bill Barr deserves credit for cleaning house at the Bureau of Prisons.] 8-20-19
Trump Administration. “Refinance U.S. Debt While Rates Are Low.” By Stephen Moore. [Taxpayers will save billions if the government takes new low-interest loans to pay off its current liabilities.] 8-30-19
Trump Administration. “Judicial Make-Up Call.” [With two more Trump nominees, this isn’t Obama’s Ninth Circuit.] 9-21-19
Trump Administration. “No More Rule by Memorandum.” [Trump gives federal agencies good guidance on bad ‘guidance.’] 10-10-19
Trump Administration. “Bill Barr ‘Gets’ Religion.” By Wm. McGurn. [The Attorney General gives a speech on secularism, and the left goes bananas.] 10-15-19
Trump Administration. “Trump Reverses Obama’s Anti-Christian Decree.” [No more discrimination against Catholics and evangelical Protestants in adoption services.] 11-4-19
Trump Administration. “Barr’s Loyalty Is to the Constitution, Not a Party.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew Grossman. [The “unitary executive’ implies both a stronger presidency and clear limits on presidential powers.] 12-26-19
Trump Administration. “2019’s Adult of the Year.” By Kimberley A Strassel. [Attorney General William Barr has kept his promises and his independence.] 1-3-20
Trump. “Trump’s Worst Enemy.” [He needs to stop tweeting about cases and let Barr do his job.] 2-14-20
Trump Administration. “Why Trump Needs Bill Barr.” By Daniel Henninger. [We’re one resignation away from moralized hysteria as a normal tool of U.S. politics.] 2-20-20
Trump Administration. “Roger Stone’s Sentence.” [Apparently there hasn’t been a coup against the judiciary.] 2-21-20
Trump Administration. “Lawyers Cast a Stone at William Barr.” By Edwin Meese III and Michael B. Mukasey. [Former officials urge current officials to defy their supervisors. That’s an afront to the rule of law.] 2-24-20
Trump Administration. “Lawyers Cast a Stone at William Barr.” By Edwin Meese III and Michael B. Mukasey. [Former officials urge current officials to defy their supervisors. That’s an afront to the rule of law.] 2-24-20
Trump Administration. “Yes, Trump Can Close Congress.” By Sal Prakash. [The Constitution gives him the power to resolve a ‘disagreement’ over the time of adjournment.’] 4-17-20
Trump Administration. “The White House vs. John Bolton.” By Chuck Cooper. [Officials are attempting to use national security as a pretext to prevent the publication of his memoir.] 6-11-20
Trump Administration. “A Roomful of Characters.” (Bookshelf by Barton Swaim.) “The Room Where It Happened.” By John Bolton. [For serious people on the right, President Trump is not an easy problem to solve. John Bolton tried, with partial success.] 6-23-20
Trump Administration. “Pompeo Takes On the Politicization of Human Rights.” By Walter Russell Mead. [He defends the spirit of 1776 and 1948 and has harsh words for the New York Times ‘1619 Project.’] 7-17-20
Trump Administration. “The Mnuchin Follies.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [With his help, Pelosi keeps outmaneuvering Republican senators on coronavirus bills.] 7-24-20
Trump Administration. Census. “Madison Warned About ‘Sanctuary’ States.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and John S. Baker Jr. [He foretold their interest in ‘exaggerating their inhabitants’ to ‘swell’ their numbers in Congress.] 8-3-20
Trump Administration. Coronavirus. “The White House Prepared for a Pandemic.” By Joel M. Zinberg and Tomas J. Philipson. [A September 2019 report laid the groundwork for Operation Warp Speed.] 8-19-20
Trump Administration. “A Good Hurricane Response.” [Laura was a killer storm but governments seem to have coordinated well.] 8-31-20
Trump Administration. “The Next Census Brawl.” [Democrats are suing to delay the count into a Biden Presidency.] 9-14-20
Trump Administration. “Pompeo and the Pope.” 10-1-20
Trump Administration. Census. “The Judiciary Grabs the Census.” [A bad John Roberts ruling is leading to more legal mischief.] 10-9-20
Trump Administration. “Getting Counted for Fun and Profit.” By Matthew Hennessey. [Somewhere along the line, the census was transformed into a scramble for dollars.] 10-22-2020
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Defense Bill Kamikaze Run.” [His veto threat could end up hurting his own policy priorities.] 12-9-20
Trump Administration. “Trump Takes a Parting Swipe at the Executive Branch.” By Susan E. Dudley and Sally Katzen. [Stripping OMB staffers of civil-service protection will make it harder for the president to do his job.] 12-10-20
Trump Administration. “Thank You, Bill Barr.” [The AG was the right man for the job in hyper-partisan times.] 12-15-20
Trump Administration. “One Standard of Justice.” (The Weekend Interview with William P. Barr by Kimberley A. Strassel.) [The departing attorney general talks about John Durham, Robert Mueller, Hunter Biden, Mike Flynn and the flak he’s taken from both parties.] 12-19-20
Trump Administration. “Can Snowden Bamboozle Trump?” [He stole U.S. secrets. His allies cajole the President for a pardon.] 12-28-20
Trump Administration. “Betsy DeVos’s Education Record.” [She did much good for school choice and due process on campus.] 1-16-21
Trump Administration. “They Did Their Jobs Well.” [Here are some of the people and policies that served the country.] 1-19-21
Trump Administration. “There’s as Much to Learn From Trump’s Success as His Disgrace.” By Gerard Baker. [Responsible leaders made his election possible by creating a vacuum that a demagogue could fill.] 1-19-21
Trump Administration. “An Unflashy Number Two.” (Bookshelf by Barton Swaim.) “So Help Me God.” By Mike Pence. “This memoir may reasonably be taken as Pence’s de facto presidential announcement. He has two problems as a contender in 2024.] 11-15-22
Trump Administration II. [Don Jr. and allies veto a duo who might compete with JS Vance.] 11-11-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Faces a Different World in Term Two.” By Walter Russell Mead. [Some adversaries have passed from the scene, while others have grown tougher.] 11-12-24
Trump Administration II. “Let the Trump Deregulation Begin.” By Suzanne P. Clark. [The coming rollback will set the economy’s animal spirits free.] 11-12-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise.” [He has a mandate on the border and to deport criminals. But more than that could get ugly.] 11-12-24
Trump Administration II.. “Why Trump Needs Recess Appointments.” By Don McGahn. [The Senae has become too slow to confirm officials. It can help things along by adjourning.] 11-12-24
Trump Administration II. “Why Trump Wants Hegseth at Defense.” [He seems to want a culture warrior to take on the military brass.] 11-14-24
Trump Administration II. “Matt Gaetz Is a Bad Choice for AG.” 11-14-24
Trump Administration II. “Elon and Vivek Can Make Government Work Again.” By Philip K. Howard. [Trump’s new efficiency commission has a chance to bring accountability to federal regulation.] 11-14-24
Trump Administration II. “How RFK Jr. Sees the World.” [From vaccines to GMO food, his views are on the anti-business left.] 11-16-24
Trump Administration II. “The Musk-Ramaswamy Project.” [Skeptics sneer, but the duo are serious about shrinking government.] 11-16-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Keeps Trolling as the ‘Resistance’ Fades.” By Peggy Noonan. [Pete Hegseth? Matt Gaetz? He can’t be serious, an he? Meanwhile, Democrats look for new ways to cope.] 11-16-24
Trump Administration II. “Elon’s Real Trump Mission: Protect Growth.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The next president is sowing a narrative with his cabinet picks. The world situation requires more.] 11-16-24
Trump Administration II. “The DOGE Chea Sheet. By Andy Kessler. [If all Ramaswamy and Musk can do is save a few billion dollars, I will be worth it.] 11-18-24
Trump Administration II. “Disruption Won’t Wok at Treasury.” [Musk gives bad advice to Trump on financial policy-making.] 11-18-24.
Trump Administration II. “Trump Will Want to ‘Confess Error.’” By Chris Horner. [“…For too long, regulators have gamed the system to achieve their desired outcomes, often subordinating the law to ideology…’] 11-18-24
Trump Administration II. “Tulsi Gabbard vs. Trump’s First Term.” [Will she underestimate security threats to dodge hard policy choices?] 11-19-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Tests the Constitution’s Limits.” By Wm. A. Galston. “It’s up to officials in the three branches of government to keep the president in line.] 11-20-24
Trump Administration II. “The Hegseth Sex Assault Accusation.” 11-20-24
Trump Administration II. “How Trump Can Teach the Education Department a Lesson.” By Jaso L. Riley. [He should pick a secretary with the boldness to back school choice and take on woke indoctrination.] 11-20-24
Trump Administration II. “Can Trump Bust Up the Beltway?” by Daniel Henninger. [Bureaucracies kept winning because no one paid attention to them. Until now.] 11-21-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Sends Clowns to Confirmation Circus.” By Karl Rove. [He has mishandled his nominations, and not only by picking Gaetz, Hegseth and Gabbard.] 11-21-24
Trump Administration II. “The House Ethics Report on Matt Gaetz.” [Senators might demand it before confirming him as Attorney General.] 11-21-24
Trump Administration II. “The DOGE Plan to Reform Government.” By Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. [Following the Supreme Court’s guidance, we’ll reverse a decadeslong executive power grab.] 11-21-24
Trump Administration II. “The Lessons of Gaetz’s Withdrawal.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [If Trump wants to shake up the Justice Department, he needs someone serious.] 11-22-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Can End Religious Discrimination.” By Nicole Stelle Garnett and John Meiser. [A simple executive order on Day One to enforce court rulings that [protect faith.] 11-22-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Cuts His Losses on Matt Gaetz.” [But will he apply the same logic to other unappealing picks.?] 11-22-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump’s Choice: Workers or Unions?” [He may nominate a teachers union favorite as Labor Secretary.] 11-23-24
Trump Administration II. “Department of education: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Gone.” By Gloria Romero. [If Trump wants to make America read again, he should follow through on his plan to abolish it.] 11-23-24
Trump Administration II. “Scott Bessent’s Treasury Gauntlet.” [The nominee reassures markets, for now, but there are many pitfalls ahead.] 11-26-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Betrays the Truckers.” [His Labor nominee’s views could cost thousands of jobs.] 11-27-24
Trump Administration II. “Donald Dos and Donald Don’ts.” By Andy Kessler. [Protect the dollar, close the Education Department and don’t fall for crypto.] 12-2-24
Trump Administration II. “I’ve Faced Fire Before, I won’t Back Down.” By Pete Hegseth. [I look forward to an honest confirmation hearing, not a press show trial based on anonymous accusations.] 12-5-24
Trump Administration II. “The Opposite of Mission Creep.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [For DOGE to succeed, it will have to rethink the purpose of the federal government.] 12-6-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Needs a DOGE for Free Speech.” By Daivd Keating. [Root out regulations and practices that infringe on our First Amendment rights.] 12-10-24
Trump Administration II. “The World War II Lesson for DOGE.” by Arthur Herman. [The ‘dollar-a-year men’ built the greatest military production machine the world has ever seen.] 12-10-24
Trump Administration II. Trump’s Diverse Cabinet Piks – rivals or Courtiers?” by Gerard Baker. [The ideological range could signal an openness to new ways of thinking, or government by whim.] 12-10-24
Trump Administration II. “Save a Reagan Initiative From the DOGE.” By Wm A. Galston. [Musk and Ramaswamy may slash the National Endowment for Democracy’s funding.] 12-11-24
Trump Administration II. “How Tulsi Gabbard Sees the World.” [Her dogmatic, hard-left views make her a risky fit for assessing intel.] 12-11-24
Trump Administration II. “Kash Patel Doesn’t Belong at the FBI.” By John Bolton. [At the NSC, he was less interested in his assigned duties than in proving his loyalty to Donald Trump.] 12-11-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump’s Misguided Attack on Birthright Citizenship.” By Jason L. Riley. [He almost certainly lacks the power to end it, and doing so would swell the illegal population.] 12-11-24
Trump Administration II. “The Great RFK Jr. Charade.” by Kimberley A. Strassel. [Why won’t the Senate take an opportunity to save Trump from a bad political deal?”] 12-13-24
Trump Administration II. “Don’t Make DOGE About Nothing.” By Susan Dudley. [Musk and Ramaswamy can’t just ‘yada yada yada’ their way through the deregulatory process.] 12-13-24
Trump Administration II. “Overwhelmed by the Trump Era? Try a Different Timeline.” By Josh Zoffer. [Eight years ago, people on the left vowed to resist. Now they tell themselves stories of the ‘multiverse.’] 12-14-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Courts Xi Jinping, Slaps Japan.” 12-14-24
Trump Administration II. “It’s All a Conspiracy, Right?” by Andy Kessler. [Don’t believe every tale you hear. Remain skeptical and look for real science.] (RFK Jr. nomination) 12-16-24
Trump Administration II. “On the Waterfront With Donald Trump.” He sides with the longshoremen’s union instead of all workers.] 12-16-24
Trump Administration II. “Donald Trump’s Japan Contradiction.” 12-18-24
Trump Administration II. “Judges ‘Unretire’ After Trump Wins.” 12-18-24
Trump Administration II. “How Trump Can Keep the Good Vibes Going.” By Karl Rove. [The postelection goodwill for him will continue if he sticks to serious priorities.] 12-19-24
Trump Administration II. “Trump Tackles Daylight Saving.” [He wants to ban clock-switching, but beware the dark mornings.] 12-20-24
Trump Administration II. “CEOs, the Deep State and Trumpian Optimism.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [It isn’t the only factor, but Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter helped unblock American democracy.] 12-21-24
Trump Administration II. “Reading the Matt Gaetz Ethics Report.” [By blocking him as AG, Senators helped the country –and Trump.] 12-24-24
Trump Administration II. “Tariff’s Will Refill the Swamp.” By Merrill Matthews. [Levies on imported goods produce more business for lobbyists and interest groups.] 12-27-24
Trump Administration II. “DOGE Cam Rediscover the Power of Congress.” By Mike Gallagher. [The founders thought the legislative branch would dominate, but it has surrendered its authority.] 1-3-25
Trump Administration II. “Trump’s Pardon Promise for Jan.6ers.” [Does it include the ex-meth trafficker who brought a metal baton and swung it at police?] 1-6-25
Trump Administration II. “Gabbard’s Confirmation Conversion.” [She flips on Section 702 data collection to win Senate GOP support.] 1-13-25
Trump Administration II. “Hegseth Faces a Skeptical Senate.” [The Defense nominee must overcome doubts about his qualifications.] 1-14-25
Trump Administration II. “Hegseth Gets a Senate Pass.” [Porn sites, Age Verification, and the Court.” [the Justices consider a state law telling websites to screen for minors.] 1-15-25
Trump Administration II. “DOGE’s Challenge Is Gargantuan.” By Kyle Peterson. [Take a peek at what all those bureaucrats are doing, from watermelons and whales to wampum.] 1-21-25
Trump Administration II. “RFK Jr.’s Trial-Lawyer Ethics.” By Kimberley a. Strassel. [He plans to regulate via lawsuit if he’s confirmed at HHS.] 1-24-25
Trump Administration II. “Trump Leaves Ex-Aides Unprotected.” [He ends security for Bolton and Pompeo, whom Iran wants to kill.] 1-24-25
Trump Administration II. “The Great Biden Welfare Blowout.” [The GOP can save huge sums by going back to pre-pandemic spending on Medicaid and SNAP.] 1-25-25
Trump Administration II. “Trump Lifts Sanctions on Alaska.” 1-25-25
Trump Administration. “Tulsi Gabbard, Snowden and Secrets.” [A director of national intelligence who excuses mass leaking of secrets?”] 1-29-25
Trump Administration II. “Trump Begins Boldly but Risks Overreaching.” By Jason L. Riley. [From Jan. 6 pardons to birthright citizenship, some of his policies are likely to alienate voters.] 1-29-25
Trump Administration II. “Now Comes the Hard Part for Trump.” By Karl Rove. [He has gotten off to a running start, but executive orders will take him only so far.] 1-30-25
Trump Administration II. “The Spending Freeze Panic.” [Trump’s pause wasn’t illegal and didn’t even affect most spending.] 1-30-25
Trump Administration II. “Elizabeth Warren Exposes RFK Jr.” [He wants to keep cashing in on lawsuits against drug makers.] 1-30-25
Trump Administration II. “Tulsi Gabbard’s Surveillance Folly.” [Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe both rebut her views on Section 702.] 1-31-25
Trump Administration II. “Trump, USAID and the Rule of Law.” By Wm. A. Galston. [The president doesn’t have legal authority to close the agency without Congress.} 2-5-25
Trump Administration II. “Hurricane Musk and the USAID Panic.” [Elon gets a flavor of the pushback his DOGE project will get.] 2-5-25
Trump Administration II. “Hamilton Would Smile at Trump’s Push for Accountability.” By Allysia Finley. [‘Energy in the Executive’ entails the authority to impose consequences for poor performance.] 2-10-25
Trump Administration II. “Elon Musk Is Having a Ball.” By Wm. McGurn. [The DOGE leader is arguably the most accountable man in Washington.} 2-11-25
Trump Administration II. “Trump Outsmarts China on Green Energy.” By Walter Russell Mead. [By dismantling the net-zero agenda, he ramps up economic pressure on Beijing.] 2-11-25
Trump Administration II. “Is there a Constitutional Crisis?” [Trump’s actions are aggressive, but they aren’t an executive coup.] 2-12-25
Trump Administration II. “How Steve Bannon Fleeced MAGA Donors.” [He pleads guilty to defrauding the people he claims to represent.] 2-12-25
Trump Administration II. “Next, Defund the United Nations.” By Eugene Kontorovich. [The U.S. underwrites a variety of international organizations that make up a global deep state. 2-12-25
Trump Administration II. “JD Vance’s Tweet Is No Crisis.” By Adrian Vermeule.” [Judges also have an obligation to respect the separation of powers. Usually they do so.] 2-12-25
Trump Administration II. “Trump Gets the Cabinet \He Wants.” [But now he and the GOP have to live with RFK Jr. and Gabbard.] 2-13-25
Trump Administration II. “Trump’s EEOC and NLRB Firings Will Likely Prevail in Court.” By Erin Hawley. [The justices precedents imply that he has the power to dismiss officials of ‘independent’ agencies.] 2-14-25
Trump Administration II. “The Trial of Danielle Sassoon.” [The young prosecutor behaved well in resigning, not so the Justice Department.] 2-15-25
Trump Administration. II “On This One, Tesla Is a DOGE Loser.” [“…Mr. Musk’s business conflicts….but there’s scant evidence so far that he’s trying to make government smaller and more efficient out of self -interest.] 2-15-25
Trump Administration II. “RFK Jr. and the Measles Outbreak.” [Now he’s secretary, not a gadfly, as unvaxxed kids get hospitalized.] 2-18-25
Trump Administration ii. “Can Trump Lift the Fog of War?” by Karl Rove. [His chaotic speed may obscure big wins from voters and policy risks from key advisers.] 2-20-25
Trump Administration II. “Judge Wants DOGE Facts, Not Fears.” [Judge Chutkan says Democratic Plaintiffs need evidence of harm.] 2-20-25
Trump Administration II. “The Obama Plan That Presaged DOGE.” By William M. Daley. [Democrats missed an opportunity to head of Trump’s scorched-earth attack on government.] 2-20-25
Trump Administration II “Trump’s Constitutional Cleanup.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The Administration is courting lawsuits that could dismantle the Washington machine.] 2-21-25
Trump Administration II. “A Stiff Drink from the Trump Fire Hose.” By Peggy Noonan. [Some of his actions are exhilarating. Some of them make you ask: Are these people clinically insane?] 2-22-25
Trump Administration II. “What RFK Jr’s Confirmation Means.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [How a scalawag came to symbolize the dilemmas of the welfare state.] 2-22-25
Trump Administration II. “America’s Future Depends on DOGE.” By Jeffrey A Tucker. [If Trump and Musk don’t succeed in showing the bureaucracy whose boss, it’s likely no on ever will.’] 2-26-25
Trump Administration II. “USDA Chief: My Plan to Lower Egg Prices.” By Brooke L. Rollins. [We will take five steps to tackle avian flu and bring down costs for American families.] 2-27-25
Trump Administration. “A total Subsidy That Needs DOGE.” [Why should U.S. taxpayers underwrite a foreign LNG project?] 2-28-25
Trump Administration. “Congress Can Easily Green-Light DOGE.” By Jed Rubenfeld. [A simple sentence in the reconciliation bill would resolve legal concerns.] 2-28-25
Trump Administration. “How MAGA Bungled the German Election.” By Joseph C. Sternberg. [A center-right chancellor should be food news for the GOP. Musk and Vance shouldn’t have meddled.] 2-28-25
Trump Administration. “Do National Parks Need the Feds?” by Robert Slowah. [If Yosemite became a California state park tomorrow, would it turn into a strip mall?] 2-28-25
Trump Administration. “Meat Will Make America Healthy Again.” By Nina Teicholz. [Federal guidelines favor inferior plant-based protein.] 3-12-25
Trump Administration. “Harmeet Dhillon vs. the Bog.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Meet the lawyer who’s about to head one of the most ideological offices in Washington.] 3-14-25
Trump Administration. “RFK’s Jr.’s Sidekick Gets the Boot.” 3-14-25
Trump Administration. “Can the ‘People’s Department’ Be cut to Size?” (The Weekend Interview with Brooke Rollins by Sierra Dawn McClain.) [The USDA started with 10 employees and now has nearly 100.000. Trump’s agriculture secretary aims to get back to basics.] 3-15-25
Trump Administration. “Don’t Cry for the Education Department.” [Good riddance as Trump moves to dismantle it. But what then? 3-15-25
Trump Administration. “’The Jungle’ Is a Cautionary Tale for DOGE.” By Peggie Noonan. [Government has grown too big and burdensome, but it also has many employees we couldn’t do without.] 3-15-25
Trump Administration. “Federal Land an Be Home Sweet Home.” By Scott Turner and Doug Burgum. [Our departments will work together to solve the housing crisis.] 3-17-25
Trump Administration. “Trump, Deportations and the Law.” [He ran on deporting gang members, but he can’t defy court orders.] 3-18-25
Trump Administration. “Gutting VOA Is a Win for China and Iran.” By Wm. A. Galston [Trump sees the power of media, but he has a blind spot about international affairs.] 3-19-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Bills of Attainder Target Law Firms.” By James Huffman. [His executive orders test a constitutional limit on government’s power of punishment.] 3-19-25
Trump Administration. “Kari Lake Isn’t Telling the Truth About the VOA.” By Amanda Bennett. [She says a new building is a waste of money, but the lease saved the government more than $150 million.] 3-24-25
Trump Administration. “A ‘Signal’ for Trump to Calm Down?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The intel snafu is leverage if a GOP Congress wants to start setting bounds.] 3-26-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Dangerous Disregard for the Courts.” By Wm. A. Galston. [‘I have an Article II,’ he once said, where I have the right to do whatever I want.’] 3-26-25
Trump Administration. “Lessons From the Signal Affair.” [The leak furor will fade but not JD Vance’s contempt for allies.] 3-26-25
Trump Administration. “Signal and the Future of National Security.” By Jeffery Rogg, [Officials will have to find ways to overcome the need for special buildings and rooms.] 3-27-25
Trump Administration. “The White House Protests on Signal.” [Steve Witkoff explains his security protocols while in Russia.] 3-27-25
Trump Administration. “Trump and Musk Share the Founder’s Mindset.” By Arthur Herman. [Most modern presidents take a managerial approach to the job, which is no way to bring radical change.] 3-27-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Walk In the Park Turns Into a Stumble.” By Faith Bottum. [Good advice for the White House: ‘It’s always a good idea to leave your trip plan with a trusted friend.”] 3-28-25
Trump Administration. “Trump to Auto CEOs: No Price Increases.” [Businesses can be forgiven for asking if ‘Comrade Kamala’ won.] 3-29-25
Trump Administration. “A New Administration’s Signal Failure.” By Peggy Noonan. [The national security communications snafu shows a government in the nads of immature bros.] 3-29-25
Trump Administration. “Leak Scandal Can Be GOP Lemonade.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Trump’s tariffs are a textbook excess of the sort that constitutional checks are designed to curb.] 3-29-25
Trump Administration. “RFK Jr. Is Vindicating His Critics.” [Shrinking HHS makes sense, but giving power to David Geier doesn’t.] 3-31-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Doesn’t Need Congress to Cut Waste.” By Chris Horner. [Activist courts block fund freezes, but not likely redirection.] 4-1-25
Trump Administration. “A $6 Trillion Tax increase?” [The President says he ‘couldn’t care less’ about pricier cars.] 4-1-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Wins a Big One on Executive Power.” [The D.C. Circuit lets his dismissals of independent agency heads stand.] 4-1-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Breaks His Promise to Lower Prices.” By Wm. A. Galston. [His tariff obsession will make life more expensive, an Americans know it.] 4-2-25
Trump Administration. “The Signal Story Is Far From a Closed Case.” By Mark R. Warner. [The Trump administration wants to move on but I want answers. We deserve to know how this happened.] 4-3-25
Trump Administration. “U.S. Tariffs Make Xi Jinping’s Day.” [Trump’s global trade war is a strategic gift to the Chinese leader.] 4-5-25
Trump Administration. “Knives Out at the National Security Council.” [Trump purges Waltz’s staff after lobbying by Laura Loomer.] 4-5-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Tariffs Get a Legal Challenge.” [A Florida firm says he is violating the major questions doctrine.] 4-5-25
Trump Administration. “Why Trump Wants Tariffs.” By Walter Russell Mead. [He sees them as a way to enhance his personal power, at home and abroad.] 4-8-25
Trump Administration. “Why Musk vs. Navarro Matters.” [The fight reflets the competing factions in Trump’s coalition.] 4-9-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Blinks on Tariffs, Again, for Now.” [The President pauses on some tariffs amid a bond rout and recession fear.] 4-10-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Provocation Principle.” By Mark Helprin. [The administration is too addicted to shock, awe and intimidation to see the harm it is doing to itself.] 4-10-25
Trump Administration. “The Tariff Demon on Trump’s Shoulder.” By Allysia Finley. [C.S. Lewis’s creations discuss how to tempt the president.] 4-11-25
Trump Administration. “The Trade Secret of Intellectual Trumpism.” By Joseph C. Sternberg. [The goal of all these tariffs for avowed protectionists is to make Americans less able to purchase things.] 4-11-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Liberates America’s Shower Heads.” [He moves to nix an Obama-Biden rule that limits water flow. Amen.] 4-12-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Exceptional Tariff Weekend.” [His Customs office announced exceptions he later renounced.] 4-14-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Border Success –and Opportunity.” [He’s secured the border. He now has a chance at a larger migrant legacy.] 4-17-25
Trump Administration. “The Hegseth Pentagon Chronicles.” [The Defense secretary is validating the concerns of his critics.] 4-22-25
Trump Administration. “Is Trump a Tyrant or a Savior? Maybe Just a Bumbler.” By Gerald Baker. [The goals of his second term are ambitious. But so far the execution has been strikingly incompetent.] 4-22-25
Trump Administration “Trump Tries to Tip the Balance of Powers.” By William A. Galston. [He sees few limits on his power over not only the executive but the other branches.] 4-23-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s 100-Day Opportunity.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [The president has lost control of the narrative, but he has a chance to retake it.] 4-25-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Rearview Antitrust Battles.” [The cases against Meta and Google miss how fast markets change.] 4-25-25
Trump Administration. “At 100 Days, Trump 2.0 Is in Trouble.” [The tariff shock he’s unleashed could sink his second term.] 4-29-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Hemorrhages Support 100 Days In.” By William A. Galston. [Even many Americans who agree with his goals disapprove of some of his methods.] 4-30-25
Trump Administration. “How to Make American Babies Again.” By Leonard Lopoo. [Subsidies for new mothers won’t have much effect. Making IVF accessible is a more promising approach.] 4-30-25
Trump Administration. “What the 47^th President Can Learn from 45^th.” By Mike Pence. [Time-honored conservative principles guided the first Trump administration. America needs them now.] 4-30-25
Trump Administration. “Sean O’Brien and the UPS Layoffs.” 5-1-25
Trump Administration. “USDA Ends a Biden Administration Injustice.” By Brooke L. Rollins. [The U.S. Forest Service wrongly targeted South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude.] 5-1-25Trump Administration. “Behind the Mike Waltz Ouster.” [The knives were out for the national-security adviser from the start.] 5-2-25
Trump Administration. “When Establishments Fail: Trump’s 100 Days.” By Peggy Noonan. [He is what he wanted to be, a world-historic figure, and we have entered a new time. It sounds dangerous.] 5-3-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Solid First Judicial Nominee.” [Whitney Hermandorfer for the Sixth Circuit is a good sign.] 5-3-25
Trump Administration. “America’s Air Traffic Fiasco.” [Here’s why you’re waiting hours to land at Newark airport.] 5-6-25
Trump Administration. “Schumer Lands in Newark, Belatedly.” [He’s outraged by the air traffic mess after opposing useful reforms.] 5-7-25
Trump Administration. “Air Traffic Reform in Our Lifetime?” [Sean Duffy’s plan would spend more but keep the bureaucracy in place.] 5-9-25
Trump Administration. “Time is Running Out for the U.S. Air-Traffic Control System.” By Robert Poole. [Ensuring safety requires bringing both technology and the business model into the 21^st century.] 5-10-25
Trump Administration. “Leave the Flying to Congress?” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Newark’s airport meltdowns is the product of the failure of American lawmakers to do their job for 30 years.] 5-10-25
Trump Administration. “FEMA Prepares for Disasters Worse Than Hurricanes.” By Eric S. Edelman and Franklin C. Miller. [It is charged with ensuring that the federal government can operate after a nuclear blast or other catastrophe.] 5-14-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Habeas Corpus Threat.” By William A. Galston. [No president, even Lincoln, has ever suspended the writ without Congress. ] 5-14-25
Trump Administration. “Broken Windows at the White House.” By Peggy Noonan. {Republicans need to address signs of disorder for their own good and the good of the country.] 5-17-25
Trump Administration. “The Trump Doctrine of the Deal.” [He is offering a realism built on commerce, but without U.S. Idealism.] 5-17-25
Trump Administration. “Disclose the Trump Crypto Winners.” [The public should know the attendees at his gala $TRUMP coin dinner.] 5-21-25
Trump Administration. “Goodbye to Federal Contract Quotas.” 5-30-25
Trump Administration. “Vance Courts Trouble for Trump.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [He takes on Chief Justice John Roberts. That’s unhelpful to the administration.] 5-30-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Money Grabs Don’t Threaten the Republic.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr, [But his big, beautiful bill plus the incompetence of his Democratic and media opposition might.] 6-1-25
Trump Administration. “MAGA Policies Would Make America Mediocre.” By Alan S. Blinder. [Among the sources of the nation’s greatness are trade, science and the world’s best universities.] 6-4-25
Trump Administration. “Vance Endorses Trump. Why?.” By Barton Swaim. [Did the president do something requiring the vice president to affirm his loyalty? 6-9-25
Trump Administration. “Bondi Bends on Abrego Garcia.” [Trump averts a needless showdown with the Supreme Court.] 6-9-25
Trump Administration. “DOGE Has Work Left Do.” By David Walker. [Elon Musk has departed. The effort to cut fraud, waste and abuse is as vital as ever to America.] 6-10-25
Trump Administration. “Musk, Trump and the Deeper Republican Rift.” By Gerald Baker. [The president’s populism isn’t entirely popular among business leaders.] 6-10-25
Trump Administration. “A Small Fiscal Step for the GOP.” [Will Congress fail to rescind even $9.4 billion in spending?] 6-11-25
Trump Administration. “Send In the Troops, for Real.” By Tom Cotton. [When local police can’t restore order, the federal government has a duty to do so with a show of force.] 6-11-25
Trump Administration. “How Trump Can Impound Money.” By Thomas Beck. [His power to leave funds unspent is strongest in areas that involve foreign and defense policy.] 6-13-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Political Calculus on Iran.” By Walter Russell Mead. [His MAGA coalition remains loyal, but if things go badly, he could end isolated.] 6-24-25
Trump Administration. “About Those ‘Millions’ Losing Medicaid.” 6-27-25
Trump Administration. “ ‘People Will Die’ Isn’t the Policy Clincher It Seems.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Trade—offs can’t be made to disappear by saying the three favorite words of the anti-Trump resistance] 7-5-25
Trump Administration. “The Epstein Conspiracy Boomerang.” [Now the fantasists on the right don’t believe Trump’s appointees.] 7-8-25
Trump Administration. “The Texas Flood Green Herrings.” [Blame cruel nature, not DOGE, or weathermen, or climate.] 7-8-25
Trump Administration. “Big Beautiful Bill? It’s Certainly Big.” By Alan S. Blinder. [But the ugly new law is one of the least popular acts ever.] 7-11-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Blows Up the Copper Market.” [U.S. firms will pay 50% more while waiting years for more U.S. Production.] 7-11-25
Trump Administration. “ ‘Tariff Man’ Strikes Again—at Canada.” 7-12-13-25
Trump Administration. “A Second Push for Mike Lee’s Land Sales.” [Freeing up federal land for homes is a good idea. Deregulation can help.] 7-12-25Trump Administration. “Trump vs. U.S. Intelligence Agencies, Round 7.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [No matter the president, the only solution is hunting down and prosecuting illegal leakers.] 7-12-25
Trump Administration. “Rescission Time for the GOP Senate.” [There’s progress, but why is it this hard to cut a mere $9 billion?] 7-16-25
Trump Administration. “Emil Bove and the Trump Judiciary.” [His appellate nominees will influence whether judges decide to retire.] 7-18-25
Trump Administration. “No Special Counsel for the Epstein Files.” [Trump is right to be skeptical. It would feed this frenzy for months.] 7-18-25
Trump Administration. “MAGA’s Epstein Fault Line.” By Peggy Noonan. [Some Trump supporters look at the refusal to release the files and see a failure to drain the swamp.] 7-19-20-25
Trump Administration. “How to End the Epstein Follies.” [Could Bondi and Patel explain the material at a news conference—and take the heat.” 7-25-25
Trump Administration. “The Bureau of Labor Denial.” 8-4-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Science Reform Veers off Course.” By Heather Mac Donald. [He started off strong with an attack on DEI, but he’s now pursuing misguided priorities of his own.] 8-5-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s ‘Liberation Day II’ Bombs at the Box Office.” By Alan S. Blinder. [The sequel features more poor economics, bad foreign policy and executive overreach.] 8-8-25
BLS. “The Agenda Behind the BLS Head’s Firing.” By William L. Silber. [Trump may be less concerned about the jobs numbers than the consumer-price index.] 8-11-25
BLS. “All E.J. Antoni’s Labor Statistics.” [Does Trump’s nominee for BLS have a plan to make data more reliable?] 8-13-25
Trump Administration. “Will E.J. Antoni Raise Your Taxes?” By Daniel Bunn and Kyle Pomerleau. [That’s what will happen if he produces overly optimistic inflation numbers.] 8-18-25
Trump Administration. “RFK Jr.’s Misguided War mRNA.” [He’s using Biden-era mistakes to tarnish a promising technology.] 8-20-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Vendetta Campaign Targets Bolton.” [It’s clearer all the time that success for Trump includes retribution.} 8-23-25
Trump Administration. “Trump’s Unoriginal Border Stopgap.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.. [Like the IRS suing celebrities, employer crackdowns buy time for reforms that never come.] 8-23-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Triples Down on Lawfare.” By Kimberley A. Strassel.” [The president makes the Democrats’ efforts against him look like child’s play.] 8-29-25
Trump Administration. “E.J. Antoni Is the Right Man for BLS.” By Arthur B. Laffer.” [A serious economist, he will restore the credibility of the bureau’s statistics.] 8-29-25
Trump Administration. “Trump, Troops and the Mayhem in Chicago.” [He’s making D.C. Safer, but his power elsewhere is limited under the law.] 9-3-25
Trump Administration. “We’re Restoring Public Trust in the CDC.” By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. [The agency’s Covid failures stem from politicized science, bureaucratic inertia and mission creep.] 9-3-25
Trump Administration. “RFK Jr.’s Goat Rodeo.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Trump’s cabinet members tirelessly serve his agenda—except this one.] 9-5-25
Trump Administration. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me.” By Susan Monarez. [I was fired after 29 days because I held the line and insisted on rigorous scientific review.] 9-5-25
Trump Administration. “ ‘War Department’ Is a Good Start.” By Andy Kessler. [Let’s avoid euphemism and give every agency of government an honest name.] 9-8-25
Trump Administration. “From ‘Fat City’ to the War Department.’ By Matthew Hennessey. [Trump has mastered the art of renaming things to liberate suppressed truths.] 9-9-25
Trump Administration. “The Art of a Bad Spectrum Deal.” [Trump and the FCC rescue Charlie Ergen and EchoStar.] 9-9-25
Trump Administration. “Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial.” [The AG seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal. Charlie Kirk knew better.] 9-17-25
Trump Administration. “Trump Secured the Border, So Where Are the Jobs?” By Jason L. Riley. [There’s little evidence that less immigration means more opportunities for Americans to work.] 9-17-25
Trump Administration. “Big Electric Bill? Thank Trump.” By Rahm Emanuel. [Rising prices are a direct result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut green-energy subsidies.[ 9-18-25
Trump Administration. “Trump, Tylenol and the Plaintiffs Bar.” [The acetaminophen link to autism is based on weak evidence pushed by RFK and his legal allies.] 9-24-25
Trump Administration. “Howard Lutnick, Steel CEO.” [He blocks Nippon Steel from closing a facility in Illinois.] 9-24-25
Trump Administration. “Howard Lutnick Suggests Condensed Milk Is Made of Metal.” By Ed Gresser. [The Commerce Department has a screwball method to protect businesses hit by steel and aluminum tariffs.] 9-25-25