Abbreviated pundit roundup: Michael Cohen's corruption
We begin today’s roundup with Margaret Hartmann and her take on the latest revelations that the president’s attorney apparently sold access to the president for millions of dollars:One GOP strategist...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The party of Michael Cohen
We begin today’s roundup with Catherine Rampell’s piece in The Washington Post on the modern day GOP:The GOP is no longer the Party of Reagan. It’s the Party of Michael Cohen.Saint Ronald and his...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Governing by chaos
We begin today’s roundup with Richard North Patterson at the Boston Globe and his piece about Donald Trump’s lack of any strategy and governing by chaos:For a time, the now-departed [advisors]...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Most corrupt administration in history
We begin today’s roundup with Ryan Cooper’s analysis at The Week of the Trump administation’s corruption:Are we really to believe that [Trump’s desire to help Chinese phone company ZTE] has nothing to...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A constitutional crisis
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its analysis of the constitutional crisis we are facing:Republicans in Congress compound their shame daily, either by standing by in silence or by...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's cruel and inhumane immigration policy
We begin today’s roundup with Paul Waldman at The Washington Post and his piece on the administration’s choice to separate children from their parents at the border:Amid growing outrage over the Trump...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Puerto Rico's staggering Hurricane Maria death toll
We begin today’s roundup with an editorial from USA Today about hurricane season and the Hurricane Maria death toll:The vast majority died not when Maria came ashore but in the storm's aftermath, when...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The president is not a king
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times editorial board:The monarchical grandeur of Mr. Trump’s assertion that he has the power to pardon himself raised eyebrows and prompted sputtering among...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Temperamental Trump alienates America's closest...
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its piece on the cult of Trump:Assuming that American democracy endures, a party organized around a single extreme personality seems like a brittle...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: After attacking allies, Trump enjoys meeting with...
We begin today’s roundup with David Axe at The Daily Beast who provides his take on what America lost at the Trump-Kim meeting:Despite Trump telling reporters that his meeting with Kim went “better...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Grifter-in-chief
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial on the Trump family incredible corruption in its handling of the Trump Foundation:It’s long been clear that Donald Trump’s family...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Editorials slam Trump's cruel policy
We begin with The New York Times:The president’s preferred bill is a hard-line plan fathered by Representative Bob Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. That...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Trump administration's complete lack of...
We begin today’s roundup with Joe Scarborough’s piece on Trump’s cruel immigration policy:Reagan took a position on immigration that most Republicans today would consider heresy, yet voters rewarded...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's detention camps
We begin today’s roundup with this piece, written anonymously in The New York Times “because of the gang-related threats she and her family face in the United States and in El Salvador.” As Trump...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Attacks on journalists, SCOTUS and more
We begin today’s roundup with an editorial from The Baltimore Sun, the parent company of the Capital Gazette, and its editorial on yesterday’s horrific shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom:Killing...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The new wave of women activists, SCOTUS, Michael...
We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times and her analysis of the new age of civic engagement for women:It’s no secret that American women dislike Trump; a recent poll...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Good riddance to Pruitt, Trump's trade war kicks...
We begin today’s roundup with Julian Zelizer’s piece at CNN. He is a history and public affairs professor at Princeton University and provides some context for why corrupt EPA chief Scott Pruitt was...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A president under investigation selects his...
We begin today’s roundup with Caroline Fredrickson, president of the American Constitution Society, and Norman L. Eisen, chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, who write about Judge...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's wrecking ball trip through Europe,...
We begin today’s roundup with Paul Krugman’s analysis of Trump’s behavior at the NATO summit:Whatever claims Trump makes about other countries’ misbehavior, whatever demands he makes on a particular...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump chooses Putin over America
We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Goldberg’s excellent piece in The New York Times analyzing Donald Trump’s shameful submission to Vladimir Putin yesterday:Trump’s behavior on Monday recalled his...
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