Tomorrow’s News Today

Jim Geraghty

Am I the only one who’s finds the daily whirlwind of controversy, accusations, counter-accusations, allegations, breathless reporting from anonymous sources, non-answers, implausible excuses, implausible spin, angry protests, and shameless behavior that makes up the Trump presidency increasingly . . . boring? Increasingly predictable?

This morning, Mike Allen of Axios opens his newsletter by reemphasizing that everything we’ve seen from the president and his family in the past few weeks is “not normal.” No kidding. Normalcy departed around the time Scott Walker left the presidential race. Normalcy isn’t coming back until the Trump presidency ends, and only God knows whether that will occur seven years from now or sometime sooner.

But we’ve lived with the abnormalcy for so long now, it may not seem all that new or surprising anymore. Heck, it’s almost predictable.

At some point, either today or in the coming days, President Trump will tweet something that ...

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Let Liberal Cities Do What They Want

Max Bloom

Suppose that we have on our hands a federalist-minded conservative. It comes to his attention that, say, Hawaii has done something silly. Perhaps the well-meaning folks in Honolulu have...

The Next Right-Wing Populist Will Rise to Prominence by Attacking American Higher Education

Elliot Kaufman

The Next Right-Wing Populist Will Rise to Prominence by Attacking American Higher Education

No, You Don’t ‘Take the Meeting’

David French

Judging from conversations online and in person, the emerging Trump-friendly defense of Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to respond enthusiastically to an invitation to meet a “Russian government...

West Can Neither Live with nor Take Out North Korean Nukes

Victor Davis Hanson

North Korea recently test-launched a long-range missile capable of reaching Alaska. When North Korea eventually builds a missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland, it will double down on...

Fixing the ‘Rotting Carcass’ Tax Code

George Will

Cynics are said to be people who are prematurely disappointed about the future. Such dyspepsia is encouraged by watching Republicans struggle to move on from the dog’s breakfast they have made...

Murphy’s Law on Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong

Deroy Murdock

The Play That Goes Wrong, now on Broadway, is an unforgettable comedy wrapped around a totally forgettable drama. What viewers of the former see is a production of the latter — a mystery called...

Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document

Senator Mike Lee

'Defenders of the Constitution, this is a must-read book for you. Most Americans know that our federal government is far too big and far more authoritative than our founders ever intended, and this book shows you how that happened. Buy this book, give it to friends or relatives, and arm yourselves in the fight to restore our Constitution.' - Mark Levin

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