Articles by Robert Zaller

Stranger and stranger. The 2020 political season has already been bizarre, and the surprises keep coming. At the same time, some things have been as…

Shortly after World War II, a film called “The War of the Worlds” depicted the invasion of Earth by space aliens fleeing their dying planet…

Three months ago, the smart money wouldn’t have bet a nickel on Bernie Sanders becoming the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2020. Yes, he…

It’s come to this: the worst threat to the Republic isn’t Donald J. Trump. It’s Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg is the billionaire flyover candidate who knows…

It has now been almost five years since Donald Trump came down his escalator (which he misremembers as an elevator) to announce himself as America’s…

All you really need to know about the current state of American politics, and America itself, was laid out more than 40 ago in a…

While the impeachment proceedings in the U. S. Senate began last week, President Trump, like Richard Nixon under fire before him, betook himself to foreign…

Donald Trump’s impeachment trial now begins, with a travesty cast of lawyers including Kenneth Starr, whose conduct during the Clinton impeachment led to the abolition…

There are two rules of the road for any president: Don’t crash the economy, and don’t start a war. If Donald Trump needed any reminder…

A party is a political grouping that supports the interests of one or more constituencies on behalf of what is believed to be the public…