All-around nice guy Steve Friess interviewed me and a number of lawyers more famous than me for Newsweek regarding Donald Trump’s and the Trump administration’s battles with judges and with the court system. Some excerpts: “The Supreme Court decisions regarding Trump’s taxes this past term was a surprise,” says Chicago…

Michael Flynn is an admitted felon. He pled guilty, and reiterated his guilty plea under oath–twice. He has served no time, he has paid no penalty and he has shown no remorse for his crimes against the nation–crimes that threatened to undermine American national security at the very highest levels. …

My latest Bulwark piece discusses the welcome fact that Joe Biden does not seem hellbent on making others think that he is clinically insane; a welcome and stark contrast with the campaign of the incumbent president of the United States. Indeed, the refreshingly boring Biden campaign appears to be a harbinger of a refreshingly boring Biden presidency. And I, for one, would enthusiastically welcome a boring presidency.

I’ve criticized Donald Trump savagely and accurately, ever since he descended down his gold-plated escalator on June 16, 2015, announced his candidacy for president of the United States, and caused American politics and the state of our democracy to descend with him to subterranean levels. And I’ve criticized the Republican…

I am very pleased to have the unexpected and very welcome opportunity to work and write alongside some excellent folks at The Bulwark, which is doing the Lord’s work in helping to create a decent and vibrant center-right movement-one that stands in opposition to the racist and white nationalist movement…

I swear to goodness that I am not trying to turn all of my public writing spaces into All-Things-Scowcroftian-All-The-Time discussion locales, but the death of Brent Scowcroft caused me to go back to a 2005 article in the New Yorker written by Jeffrey Goldberg, that profiled Scowcroft in light of…

I am more than a bit confused by the claim that because Brent Scowcroft had opinions — strong opinions, even! — it meant that he didn’t “follow ‘the Scowcroft model.’” …

The administration of George Herbert Walker Bush featured, without a shadow of a doubt, the best foreign policy team of my lifetime, designing and implementing the best foreign policy initiatives and programs in my lifetime, and doing the very best job of any administration in my lifetime in terms of…

In the event that there still are a few of you out there who believe that Donald Trump can and will be easily beaten in 2020, let me disabuse you of such silliness right now. Historically, incumbent presidents are very, very, very hard to beat when they seek re-election. The…