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With everything on the line for his party on Tuesday, Donald Trump has turned into our stuntman in chief. He has rolled out one phantasmagoric idea after another in recent days, some of them as offensive as they are preposterous. There is the tax cut...

On Monday, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced the political equivalent of a terminal illness. She said that she would step down as the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union by the end of the year and that she would not run for re-electi...

On Sunday night, the Boston Red Sox defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 to win the World Series in five games. This finished an 11-3 play-off run in which the Red Sox dispatched the New York Yankees, the Houston Astros and the Dodgers. They were wid...

Donald Trump’s defenders and even some of his tepid critics on the Right seem determined to keep their moral blinders firmly affixed so as to narrow the discussion about the horrible incidents such as the mass murder at Tree of Life synagogue in Pitt...

What can we in the West do for the crisis in the Middle East? The present recipe of war stokes passion, promotes ideological conflict and raises tensions between people as they are thrust together running from conflict zones. This approach may benefi...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his henchmen may believe they are outside the reach of international justice after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but they should not be so sure. There are a range of ways the Saudi leader and th...

A note from Karen Attiah, Washington Post Global Opinions editor: I received this column from Jamal Khashoggi’s translator and assistant the day after Jamal was reported missing in Istanbul. The Post held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal woul...

The Senate voted on Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after one of the most contentious nomination battles in history and by the slimmest margin for a justice in the modern era. Now, difficult as this seems, it will be up to t...

Only the little people pay taxes,” said a New York celebrity real estate figure in the 1980s. It was not Donald Trump but Leona Helmsley, who was eventually convicted of tax fraud and served time in prison. But they had a lot in common. On Tuesday ni...

The Brett Kavanaugh nomination and the subsequent accusations of sexual misconduct is a traumatising experience for American politics but it throws the whole issue of ethics into another realm. I listened to the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, a...

Sometimes Donald Trump can’t resist. His disdain for the media generally and particular journalists specifically is always bubbling under the surface. At times, it breaks through, as it did at a news conference yesterday. Trump called on ABC’s Cecili...

The bitter debate surrounding United States Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh provides an instructive lesson in how blind party loyalty could disrupt democracy in Bermuda. Earlier this summer, Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to be one of the ni...