Dear friends: I enjoy sending you my column every week, but I ask you to pay special attention to this one. Here goes… Let’s stop pretending. Let’s stop acting like this is normal. Let’s stop kidding ...

No more beating around the bush. It’s not enough anymore to say Donald Trump’s starting to show signs of mental decline. Say it out loud! Donald Trump is already totally bonkers! That’s been more ...

Nothing was more important than family in the small town of Delaware City, Delaware, where I grew up. Our extended family, the Cook Cousins, numbered in the dozens. And whenever the whole clan – ...

If anything, Donald Trump is consistent. Everything he does is bad. The big things and the little things. Of course, Trump’s big, bad things get the most attention: sending troops into American cities ...

Washington’s annual Gridiron Dinner is a throw-back to the 19th century: women in long gowns; men in white tie; officials of both political parties, who pretend to get along for one night; and ...

Imagine for a moment you were just elected p resident of the United States. Your first priority is to find the most qualified people in the country, to join your Cabinet. And, among those choices, ...

I’d like to kick off 2026 by wishing everybody a happy new year, but I can’t. It’s no happy new year when a president of the United States openly breaks domestic and international law by invading ...

America is at war. A full-scale, illegal, unnecessary war against a country that posed no imminent threat to the United States. A war that could have long-range, disastrous consequences in the Middle ...

In 30 years, every column I’ve written has been about policy or politics. This one is personal. I’ll never forget, as a young political operative, how thrilled I was to meet the already legendary ...