A short ****ing history of presidential swearing
From Truman to Trump
Richard nixon
Wednesday
Thursday
‘I had two jobs: to run the country and to survive’: an interview with President Trump
POTUS on his second term, Nixon, Ukraine — and the tush push
Sunday
Why America has more lawyers per capita than any other country
While the regulatory state has expanded steadily for decades, its costs have grown dramatically under Biden
Monday
Republicans can’t figure out Kamala
They just know Trump’s handling it wrong
Henry Kissinger’s likely last book is on leadership
And his biographies of great lives sparkle nicely
Monday
Biden and Nixon: presidential history is repeating itself
July 1974 or July 2024? The answer, of course, is both
Thursday
Pat Nixon, ambassador of goodwill
In a new biography of the former First Lady, Heath Hardage Lee attempts to uncover the real woman
Wednesday
Republicans show their fecklessness with Mayorkas
At some point between the Nixon administration and Donald Trump’s first administration, impeachment went to drama school
Thursday
A potted history of impeachments
The House has voted to impeach a federal official only twenty-one times in the 234 years the Constitution has been in effect
Saturday
In praise of Mike Pence
On January 6, when it really counted, he did the right thing
Tuesday
White House Plumbers is a busted flush
HBO’s new Watergate show is caricature, not drama
Monday
America has too many state secrets
The national security state has far more secrets than it can reasonably be expected to protect
Monday
What happens to US fighters captured in Ukraine?
Much of what passes as ‘justice’ in wartime is meted out by the victor
Friday
In search of a credible Elvis movie
Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic is fun but too cartoonish to capture the legend
Title IX reminds us that the cultural left will lose
Don’t bet on Lia Thomas in the arc of history long game
Thursday
Is Bob Woodward overrated?
Fifty years on, the hero of Watergate has become little more than a stenographer
The moral cost of inflation
Inflation has hobbled nations for generations
Sunday
How we got to inflation
Controlling, or, more accurately, trying to control, the marketplace never works
Tuesday
Saigon and Kabul: what would Nixon say?
Alas, here we are, doomed to history repeating because of Biden’s disregard of all of the lessons of the previous debacle
Monday
Elvis and Nixon, the odd couple
The day the president met the King
