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A voice in my head makes the case to re-elect the president. Last Sunday this section was turned over to essays making the case against the re-election of Donald Trump. [...]

Byline: Max Boot For Print Use Only. President Donald Trump has done a lot of bizarre, frightening things, but he managed to outdo himself on Monday. He left the hospital [...]

The coronavirus pandemic is spiraling out of control, largely because of the president himself. I think I echo many Americans, and people of the world in general, when I say [...]

Beware a despot when he's cornered. Two weeks ago, I wrote that perhaps, at long last, we had reached a tipping point in Trump's popularity, and I stand by it. [...]

Trump utterly fails to rise to his first real crisis. For three years Donald Trump led a charmed life. He faced only one major crisis that he didn't generate himself [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake WASHINGTON - By this point, it's no secret that President Donald Trump's pardons have been significantly more self-serving than those of other presidents. While his predecessors have [...]

Byline: George T. Conway III For Print Use Only. 'So we'll probably have to do it again.' So said the already-once-impeached President Donald Trump on Thursday in the East Room, [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent Sean Hannity's latest effort to portray President Trump as a heroic and decisive leader throughout the coronavirus crisis belongs in a time capsule. It will aid future [...]

Corrupt forces find it easy to manipulate this president. Kenneth McCallion is a New York lawyer who once represented former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine. A few years ago, [...]

Byline: Philip Bump In the last few weeks of the 2016 presidential election, trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton by a daunting margin, Donald Trump's campaign lifted a play from the 1994 [...]

Donald Trump's presidency has baffled me, enraged me and above all saddened me, because I'm a stubborn believer in America's promise, which he mocks and imperils. But last week his [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin By his own standards, President Donald Trump has been a miserable failure. Whether it is the wall or China or repealing the Affordable Care Act or North [...]

It's hard to work up much sympathy for the hollowed-out husk of a human being that is Mitch McConnell, or Lindsey Graham for that matter. This country is a harder, [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols The president of the United States, like all elected officials and public servants, swears to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies. But there is one [...]

Byline: Ronald A. KlainMake no mistake: The core of Trump's electoral strength remains unchanged - voters are drawn to his divisive hatred, culture warfare and xenophobia. But among a smaller, [...]

There's a saying, now associated with the investor Warren Buffett, that if you're playing poker for 30 minutes and you don't know who is the fool at the table, the [...]

Byline: Anthony ScaramucciWhile the White House is increasingly under siege from emboldened Democrats, reports of chaos are off the mark. The president continues to run a tight ship and field [...]

Byline: Max Boot The position of director of national intelligence was created after the 9/11 terror attacks to prevent another such assault on the American homeland. The DNI, as the [...]

Byline: Marc FisherPresident Donald Trump's reaction to a new guilty plea Thursday from his longtime attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, was predictably pugnacious: Cohen, one of Trump's strongest defenders for [...]

Byline: Julia Ioffe In the hours after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, President Donald Trump's allies were at pains to point out that Robert Bowers, the alleged shooter, was in fact [...]

WASHINGTON -- If President Trump is worried that he could be impeached should Democrats take control of the House in the midterm elections, he is not acting like it. If [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Don't get me wrong - I'd give almost anything to have a boring president (of either party) who colors inside the constitutional lines. Given that we do [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Republican congressional leadership has repeatedly refused to stand up to President Donald Trump - be it over threats to fire the special counsel, smears of the FBI [...]

We are tethered to a buffoon. He rages and veers, spreading ugliness, like an oil slick smothering everything in its viscous mantle. He's about to bomb Syria. He's not about [...]

President Trump hasn't destroyed the republic. This should not surprise us. Our democratic institutions are strong. And Mr. Trump, despite his reckless attacks on democratic norms, is a weak and [...]

When you're on an airplane, you want the pilot to succeed. So one year ago today, when Donald Trump was elected president, the Editorial Board hoped we were wrong to [...]

From the beginning, people around me talked nonstop about the end. How long could Donald Trump's presidency possibly last? Would impeachment or the 25th Amendment undo him? Before Trump, few [...]

Byline: Charlotte Allen Common wisdom: President Trump has plunged the White House into ethical and moral chaos (the forced resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn after intelligence bureaucrats leaked [...]

Byline: Peter Grier President Trump isn't exactly off to a running start. He's announced only about 30 nominees for the top 700 or so key executive branch jobs. He's taken [...]

''Our job is to be ready on Day 1,'' Vice President Mike Pence said in Washington last week. ''The American people can be confident that we will be.'' The American [...]

This appeared in Thursday's Washington Post. - - - We opposed Donald Trump's election and supported his opponent, Hillary Clinton, because we thought she offered better policy solutions and was [...]

Byline: Michael W. McConnell When President Trump tweeted that he has the constitutional authority to pardon himself, he likely weakened his case in the minds of most ordinary people. Why [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman Most presidents come into office saying their administration will adhere to the highest ethical standards, and those who work for them will either be committed solely to [...]

Byline: David Mastio, and Jill Lawrence Jill: To normalize or not to normalize. That is the choice Donald Trump has presented from the day he declared his White House candidacy [...]

Byline: Susan Page Washington, meet President-elect Donald Trump. The nation's new commander in chief is moving to town with formidable political assets and limited political debts. Start with unified Republican [...]

Byline: David Lewis Six months into his presidency, President Trump has just pulled retired general John F. Kelly away from his position heading Homeland Security to be his White House [...]