Belatedly, here’s my most recent WaPo column, about why Trump insists that everyone else is a liar: The notion that “Comey is a liar” is less the view of mainstream Republicans than an attempt by the president’s supporters to redefine “lie” as any assertion of inconvenient information, no matter how Read More

I had another column in the Washington Post yesterday–this one about Ivanka Trump’s convenient vacillations between her role as daughter and senior White House advisor, but also about how to understand Trump as a human A/B test who simply and nihilistically repeats the message that generated the last best response and Read More

Belatedly, my most recent Washington Post column is about why it’s very difficult to care that the president is paying off porn stars to keep quiet about their dalliances with him, but why it’s worth scraping together a little bit of shit to give. You can read it here. I Read More

At the beginning of 2017, my small company decided to take everything we had in our arsenal and go full-time into politics because we spent the end of 2016 thinking of and talking about nothing else. It seemed urgent in a way that eclipsed even the things we were excited Read More

Over the last several months, I’ve been approached by publications and news shows about once a week to write about or talk about the experience of working with Jared Kushner. Historically, I’ve declined. But I said yes to a Washington Post request earlier this week because I think certain points Read More

If Congress manages to pass Trumpcare, it’s mostly going to hurt Trump voters–particularly older ones–and most of them don’t realize it because they conflate the exchanges for uninsured with ACA at large, which affects everyone. I wish they had been more thoughtful about who they voted for in the election, Read More

I’m not sure public shaming really works on POTUS in a way that makes him consider changing his behavior, but I do think other members of the administration can be moved by it. So I don’t feel much sympathy for Sean Spicer after Melissa McCarthy’s hilarious skewering of him on Read More