By KEITH RAFFEL In 1992, Bill Clinton chose the Fleetwood Mac tune “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” as his campaign theme song. So much seems quaint from those Clinton presidential years — a shrinking national debt, gun control legislation, expanded health coverage for children ...

By TIM GRAHAM There’s something funny in scandal politics when people accuse each other of pushing a “distraction.” So if Donald Trump tries to change the subject to Russia collusion-hoaxing, it’s a “distraction” from the media’s energetic Jeffrey Epstein obsession. All this ...

By JAMIE STIEHM Donald Trump’s conquering of the country is complete. The blows he’s inflicted on American democracy will take a lifetime to heal. The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, a woman, for a poor jobs and growth report. That is a death knell — or a deep ...

By FROMA HARROP How nice to have the Sydney Sweeney “great genes” controversy. It is happily of no consequence, which is just what we need for escape from unhinged behavior spilling out of Washington. Donald Trump is sending nuclear subs toward Russia, a likely distraction from his ...

By ROBERT REICH I spent much of the 1990s as Secretary of Labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labor economist and statistician I came in contact with, that one of my ...

By RICH LOWRY Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential understatements of all time, Emperor Hirohito told the people of Japan that “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.” He was originally going to say that “the war situation has deteriorated ...