Articles by Robert Zaller

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…

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…