Articles by Robert Zaller

A recently posted comment by CNN analyst Stephen Collinson seemed to me to sum up our current state of affairs: “At a time of tribal…

Donald Trump has been telling us about the “Deep State” for the past three years. It’s not a new idea. The Deep State, some say,…

Recently, I saw Todd Phillips’ new film, “Joker,” based on DC comic strips. The Joker is well known as one of the antagonists of the…

It’s still really 2016. We had an election that year that produced an unprecedented event: We elected a demagogue. We’re still stuck with him, and…

When the Thirteen Colonies rebelled against George III in 1775, Great Britain was the world’s most powerful empire, although China had not yet heard of…

America has lost three wars in the Middle East in this century ⁠— not counting the one with our most persistent foe, Iran. We lost…

Donald Trump is going to be impeached. It is as certain as the sunrise now. Only three months ago, though, the odds on it were…

Donald J. Trump is now the fourth of our presidents to face impeachment. Two of them, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, actually were impeached, although…

Something is happening that’s never happened before: the world’s two oldest democracies, Britain and the United States, are simultaneously experiencing constitutional crises they haven’t faced…

Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second as farce. Of course, that doesn’t preclude tragedy following the…