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Four Simple Questions for Marjorie Taylor Greene

November 14, 2025 Marjorie, simple, questions, four, Taylor, Greene0 comment

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s critics are starting to think they got her all wrong. “You are a very different person than I thought you were,” The View’s Sunny Hostin marveled last week, when the Georgia representative joined the show for a largely genial discussion. Recently, Greene has criticized the GOP’s shutdown strategy, lack of a plan to address health-care costs, and refusal to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. This turnabout has excited some liberals and media outlets, sometimes to the point of credulity. Greene sits on the potent House Oversight and…

Why They Mask

November 10, 2025 they, mask0 comment

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A few days after President Donald Trump took office, I got an invitation from ICE officials to observe the administration’s new “surge operations” in New York City. They told me to show up at 4 a.m. at the downtown federal building where the agency has its holding cells. Officers in body armor huddled in the basement parking garage, then headed to the Bronx in a caravan of unmarked cars. The trip wasn’t particularly…

Dick Cheney Didn’t Care What You Thought

November 6, 2025 didn't, Dick, Thought, care, Cheney0 comment

Back when he was a House member from Wyoming, Dick Cheney was part of a congressional delegation that visited the Soviet Union in the 1980s. During a lull in the schedule, Cheney and his colleagues were sitting around trying to entertain themselves when one of their wives decided to administer personality tests. The results included professions for which the members would be well suited. Cheney’s ideal job? A funeral director. I briefly worried that telling this story at this moment might be in poor taste, given that Cheney, the powerful…

The Slow Death of Special Education

November 2, 2025 death, Education, special, Slow0 comment

The Trump administration has taken the government shutdown as an opportunity to end federal oversight of the education services offered to more than 8 million children with disabilities in America. Last month, the Department of Education attempted to fire nearly every staff member left at the Office of Special Education Programs—an action now stuck in litigation. The department had already canceled millions of dollars in grants to provide teacher training and parental support for students with disabilities, and it is now “exploring additional partnerships” to move special-education services elsewhere in…

Trump Is Sleepwalking Into Political Disaster

October 29, 2025 Trump, Sleepwalking, Political, into, disaster0 comment

The most glaring self-inflicted wound from Donald Trump’s first term in office was his decision in 2017 to let Paul Ryan and other traditional Republicans push him into a futile war to repeal the Affordable Care Act. From Ryan’s perspective, the decision made perfect sense: He and his allies despised the welfare state in general and the ACA in particular, and saw Trump’s presidency as a final chance to destroy the hated law before its roots grew too deep. From Trump’s perspective, the move was a fiasco. By dint of…

My Quest to Find the East Wing Rubble

October 25, 2025 East, Find, wing, quest, Rubble0 comment

When the president of the United States decides to demolish the East Wing of the White House to construct a ballroom, all that stucco and molding and wood has to go somewhere. So I tried to find it. I’d heard that the dirt from the East Wing demolition was being deposited three miles away, on a tree-lined island next to the Jefferson Memorial called East Potomac Park. So yesterday I drove around until I saw trucks and men in construction gear. They were congregating at an entrance to the public…