Pants on Fire, POTUS Edition

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

Trumpcare and Trump Voters

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

McCarthy As Spicer

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