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Sargent: Trump is cornered — and panicking about it
President Donald Trump has now approvingly quoted a top supporter raising the prospect of "civil war." He accused unnamed national security officials in his own government of "spying" on him....
Sargent: New disclosures about lewd Trump video reveal his mastery of GOP
In all kinds of ways, of course, Trump himself demonstrates how deeply the culture of impunity has penetrated the GOP.
Sargent: Trump rages over his latest failure to corrupt our democracy 聽
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump abruptly declared that his administration will keep up its efforts to rig the 2020 Census -- which appears driven by naked partisan purposes --...
Sargent: Half the Senate told Trump not to abuse war powers against Iran
The Democratic candidates should be talking more about this -- they should be uniformly pledging that as president, they would return the warmaking authority to Congress. This would ideally entail...
Sargent: Trump’s Iran reversal exposes one of his most dangerous lies
The news that President Trump Donald ordered strikes on Iran, only to reverse himself at the last minute, provides an occasion to revisit the big story that Trump told in...
Sargent: The nightmare scenario for Democrats on Trump’s taxes
The administration's categorical refusal to release President Donald Trump's tax returns heightens the difficult question Democrats face, and raises the prospect of a nightmare scenario -- both in political and...
Waldman and Sargent: Trump obstructed justice, and Mueller report makes it clear
Now that Attorney General William Barr gave a news conference marked by a remarkably dishonest effort to pre-spin the Mueller report, the upshot of the day's events can be summed...
Waldman and Sargent: New Trump budget is a horror show for Dems and Paul Ryan’s dream come true
You may remember that when he ran for president in 2016, Donald Trump said lots of unusual things, among which were regular pledges that unlike his Republican primary opponents and...
Sargent: With new border deal, Republicans are trying to negotiate Trump’s surrender
Trump's win on the wall will remain firmly in the category of the imaginary.
Column: Trump’s corruption is about to stain the Supreme Court
The refusal by President Donald Trump and Republicans to support an FBI examination of the sexual assault charges against Brett Kavanaugh isn't simply a tactic designed to get him confirmed...