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There's a smart way and a dumb way to check China. Trump's choosing the dumb way.

We see phrases like 'reinventing the presidency' stand in for 'tearing down constitutional norms.'

Trump's big blustering talk disguises a marked reluctance to take action on the battlefield.

A barrage of disinformation and deceit is being hurled at Mueller for daring to discover the truth.

The former Trump campaign chairman's case against Mueller and Rosenstein is full of holes.

Most dangerous is Trump's tolerance for the fascists of the alt-right, on display in Charlottesville.

Two top legal experts suggest it's no more a publicity stunt that has little if any legal merit.

A leaked State Dept memo argues that 'realism' should take precedence over 'idealism.'

Twenty campaign promises Trump has broken.

Neil Buchanan writes that Republicans will be punished by voters for shoveling money toward mega-rich donors.

Indies have moved from a net positive approval rating to a steadily increasing net negative one.

Trump has taken to humiliating the veep, openly mocking his conspicuous religiosity.

The first year of Trump is a mixed blessing. With the president's bullying character the biggest drawback.

Trump has targeted New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

80 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama voted for the pedophile Roy Moore.

Never before Trump have we had a president who combined crookedness, bigotry and incompetence.

Protesting every small horror can drown out the really big issues we should be concerned about.

Perhaps Trump should have spent the holiday with some of the 15.4 million American children (21 percent) living in poverty.

Dems say it'll be an albatross around the GOP's neck; Republicans say it'll boost their vote.

Citizens in all 50 states have identified the time and place they will rally if the Mueller is fired.

Neil Buchanan writes that reforming the estate tax and a minimum tax regime has are priorities.

Trump wants to abandon the McGovern-Dole free school meals program.

Trump is even trying to deport Iraqi Christians, many of whom have lived in the US for decades.

The scoundrels, liars and idiots we elect to Congress should be regularly tested for mental competence.

Russia's social media campaign borrowed a theme from Rod Sterling's cult classic.

He's a pious evangelical who jumped at the chance to be the running mate of a man who bragged he grabbed women "by the pussy."

By firing Rosenstein not Mueller, Trump can claim he is not interfering in the Russia probe.

Putin's interference in the 2016 election has made rapprochement with Russia unthinkable.

From peddling opiods to avoiding gun control, Trump is pandering to dark money donors who are buying Congressmen.

The next big battle might be keeping Trump's tax cuts in place if the Dems take control of Congress.