Jennifer Rubin

A man holds a copy of the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff after buying it at a bookstore in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5.

Rubin: The “stable genius” isn’t even functioning as president

January 8, 2018 at 2:06 p.m.

We have a vice president to take over if the president is incapable; the 25th Amendment does not say "but in a pinch, let the secretaries of defense and treasury...

Rubin: Guidelines for watching the news and staying sane in 2018

December 29, 2017 at 10:09 a.m.

For political-watchers, news media, political operatives, candidates and officials, 2017 was -- let's be honest -- exhausting.

Speaker of the House speaks to members of the media after the House passed the Republican tax overhaul bill Tuesday evening at the U.S. Capitol.

Rubin: Seeing through the GOP’s dishonest tax calculation

December 20, 2017 at 12:39 p.m.

Spend some time on one of the many tax calculators out there to estimate the impact of the GOP's tax bill, and you quickly find there is no average American.

Supporters of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore watch for results at an election night party in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday. Moore, who had been endorsed by President Donald Trump, lost a close race to Democrat Doug Jones.

Rubin: Donald Trump is toxic, and other lessons from Alabama

December 18, 2017 at 11:39 a.m.

If Republicans have any survival instinct, they might think seriously about how to get rid of Donald Trump before 2018, and certainly before 2020.

Republican U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, left, Lisa Murkowski.

Rubin: Two senators’ inexplicable flip-flops on health care

December 1, 2017 at 2:56 p.m.

As a political matter, Sens. Collins and Murkowski would be foolish to give way, since the White House has already said the individual mandate repeal could come out of the...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House last Tuesday for a Thanksgiving trip to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

Rubin: The pathetic neediness of Trump

November 27, 2017 at 3:40 p.m.

Donald Trump is the most powerful man in the world, but he feels compelled to make up a story to explain why a magazine isn't giving him a meaningless tribute....

Rubin: Vice President Pence’s stunt tells us a lot about him

October 9, 2017 at 4:14 p.m.

In leaving the game between the Colts and the 49ers, Vice President Mike Pence acted not out of spontaneous patriotism but out of blind loyalty.

Rubin: Trump’s a narcissist, not a political independent

September 11, 2017 at 2:18 p.m.

President Donald Trump is not an "independent," as right-wing Republicans now would like to believe. No way. Trump's on you, Republicans.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks Tuesday from the Justice Department in Washington. Sessions announced that the Trump administration is ending the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protect those who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, with a six-month delay for the Congress to put in replacement legislation.

Rubin: Trump didn’t have the nerve to make the DACA announcement himself

September 5, 2017 at 10:34 a.m.

With his decision on DACA, President Donald Trump is setting in motion a disruptive and fear-inducing measure that affects 800,000 or so young people brought here as children.

In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. President Trump last week pardoned Arpaio following his conviction for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigration case.

Rubin: With Arpaio pardon, Trump again enables evil behavior

August 28, 2017 at 11:51 a.m.

We have come to expect Trump to identify with the most lawless, most bigoted elements in the country. He is not about leading or unifying the country. He is about...

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