With the end of a five-week shutdown that ends without money for a wall, we see the make-believe nature of Trump's presidency.
Giving those shortcomings, they are prone to mistaken opinions and unwise choices, just as every previous generation of teenagers was.
The only way to combat this entrenched practice is to punish not only the officers who abuse citizens but the officers who look the other way or lie to protect the guilty.
The danger to Trump is not so much that he would be blocked by the courts on the ground that using this power to build a wall would be exceeding his legal authority.
The president's Oval Office address Tuesday was the latest confirmation that on immigration, even more than on other topics, truth is his mortal foe.
Warren has assets that may serve her well, being a sharp-witted populist and a woman in a party whose voters are mostly women.
His brain is shielded by a concrete border wall that repels any unwelcome facts or obligations.
Today, it looks as though the administration is indeed crushing it — the economy, that is.
There are two established rules for withdrawing American troops from foreign conflicts. The first is: Don't do it now. The second is: Don't do it later.
Critics of our permissive gun laws make much of the fact that Americans are unusually prone to use firearms to kill themselves.
Could someone tell the Brits? In 2016, they voted to abandon the European Union, taking their bangers and mash and retreating to splendid isolation.
These are among the many presidential lessons that Donald Trump didn't learn before taking office and has ignored ever since.
Lately, some Republican members of Congress have given evidence of spines that they are capable of stiffening.
Some types of sharks have to swim continuously to keep oxygen coming in; to be still is to perish. Donald Trump is similar, except his unceasing drive is trying to make money.
The American mission in Afghanistan has borrowed a page from Harry Potter, draping itself in a cloak of invisibility.