The 10 Craziest Things Any President Has Done
JACOB ORGEL | Contributor 1. Toilet Interviews There have been substantial allegations that President Donald Trump sends some of his best tweets while sitting on the toilet, but this is not the first time a president took his professional tasks into the bathroom. Lyndon B. Johnson notoriously brought reporters and aides into the bathroom […]
The Pittsburgh Double Bind: Presidents Shouldn’t Be So Important
By Thomas L. Knapp US president Donald Trump’s announced visit to Pittsburgh in the wake of America’s latest mass shooting — eleven synagogue congregants dead at the hand of an antisemite fanatic — received a cool reception. The mayor didn’t want him to come. The county executive didn’t want to meet with him. Local […]
#NeverNeverTrump: What’s Evan McMullin Really After?
By Thomas L. Knapp For months, voices from the #NeverTrump movement have confidently promised Americans a fifth credible presidential candidate, an alternative not only to Donald Trump but to Democratic pick Hillary Clinton, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party standard-bearer Jill Stein. Echoing those promises, a shadowy group calling itself “Better For America,” funded […]
No, It’s Not Just You. Politics Really Does Drive People Nuts.
By Thomas L. Knapp Before Charles Krauthammer became a political columnist capable of simultaneously endearing and enraging all comers, left and right, he studied medicine at Harvard, practiced psychiatry at Massachusetts General, and directed psychiatric research planning in the Carter administration. For that reason I hesitate to assume that he was joking, when, in a […]
