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Byline: Tom Nichols The Mask Wars - between Americans who supported mask mandates to fight the coronavirus and those who opposed them - should end now that President Biden and [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Some prominent Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, are pressuring President Joe Biden to forgive up to $50,000 in student loan debt [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols In 1990, President George H.W. Bush faced a decision about going to war against Iraq after the surprise invasion of Kuwait in August. Victory was never in [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Over the past few days, we have seen the sickly gasps, literally, of a fading authoritarian regime. A brush with a potentially mortal illness might change other [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols 'How can you stand it?' It's a question I've been asked many times as I sit through almost every single one of President Donald Trump's news conferences [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols A week before he was replaced as acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney said the media was overblowing coronavirus coverage because 'they think this will [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Sen. Bernie Sanders and I don't have a lot in common. We both lived in Vermont, where I was one of his constituents, but I never voted [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols The process of impeachment has begun. The House has ordered 'committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Dear Democrats: We've been together for a while now. It's platonic, and probably always will be, as we share a home together as friends ever since I [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols and Philippe Reines The Trump administration has created some unusual realignments among Americans, and we are Exhibit A. We have spent very different lives in and around [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols We now know that the government official who blew the whistle on President Donald Trump's attempts to use a foreign government for his own corrupt purposes was, [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Are you planning on traveling soon? A flight to see family or for a vacation? Or perhaps you are dragging yourself off on business. No matter the [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh wants Republicans to ditch President Donald Trump next year. Two weeks ago, he wrote an op-ed headlined 'Trump Needs a Primary Challenge,' [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols I don't care if Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a mendacious Massachusetts liberal. She could tell me that she's going to make me wear waffles as underpants and [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Robert Mueller has finally testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees. We learned nothing new about his report, but we learned a lot about the Republican [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols I don't know why President Donald Trump backed out of a strike on Iran at the last minute, but we should be glad that he did. As [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Having read the My View by Tom Wright ('No migrants in my backyard?' May 26), I felt it necessary to respond. Yes, it would be great if [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols If we take a moment to pull ourselves away from President Donald Trump's efforts to suppress a report that he claims exonerates him, we might notice that [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols The president of the United States, like all elected officials and public servants, swears to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies. But there is one [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols I was walking with my wife here in a cold, intermittent rain. I had just visited the Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten, not far from the [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Attorney General William Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report vindicates President Donald Trump's insistence that there was no collusion with the Russians on the 2016 [...]

Byline: Tom NicholsFinally, the GOP is calling out a chief executive for his appalling insensitivity on an issue of race: Saturday, via Twitter, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the highest-ranking [...]

Byline: Tom NicholsLet us sit back, just for a moment, and absorb the reality of the revelations of the past few days.For apparently the first time in history, the U.S. [...]

Byline: Tom NicholsWhen Donald Trump ran for president, he brushed off concerns about his own lack of governing experience by repeatedly promising to hire 'only with the best and most [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols 'It really is true that foreign affairs is the only important issue for a president to handle, isn't it? I mean, who gives a s--t if the [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols In the parliamentary systems of our allies, such as Canada or the United Kingdom, a vote for a candidate at any level is almost always a vote [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols There is no way Republicans will halt their march toward Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. But if the party still cared [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols The Helsinki summit is over, and we are all left struggling to find the words to capture the nightmare that in the space of less than 24 [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols The left-leaning commentariat didn't hesitate to backstop the restaurant owner who asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave her establishment on Friday. The issue [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Remember when Republicans feared the bungling diplomacy of a vain, inexperienced president and vowed to stop him before he destroyed our security? In 2014, Senate Republican leader [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols How many times do you tell someone not to touch a hot stove before you stand aside and let them do what they want? This is the [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols The historic handshake between the leaders of North and South Korea has, for now, reduced the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong Un even [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols America will not recover from the presidency of Donald Trump. In a literal sense, that is not true. The United States will exist long after Trump either [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols President Donald Trump finally did what everyone knew he was going to do, firing Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser and replacing him with [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols President Trump's decision to participate in a summit with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un is dangerous. If it happens and Trump succeeds in beginning the denuclearization [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols President Donald Trump kept an important campaign promise this week. Not the one about tariffs - that was incidental - but the one where he vowed to [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Republicans once believed in limited government, fiscal restraint, support for the defense and national security establishments, family values, and a strong American role in maintaining global order. [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols It is now a year into the Trump presidency, and, shutdown crisis aside, the business of government goes on more or less as usual. Most of the [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Even as his overall approval ratings continue to erode, President Donald Trump remains popular among a swath of Republican voters for whom he can do no wrong [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Once again, a Republican effort to repeal (or replace, or modify, or mangle) the Affordable Care Act has failed. The proposed bill by Sens. Lindsey Graham and [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Once again, a Republican effort to repeal (or replace, or modify, or mangle) the Affordable Care Act has failed. The proposed bill by Sens. Lindsey Graham and [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Once again, the North Koreans have engaged in a missile test. Once again, President Trump has warned that 'all options are on the table.' And once again, [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols, contributor Here's the good news: We are not yet in a crisis with North Korea. We are not facing an imminent threat of hostilities against the United [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols Here's the good news: We are not yet in a crisis with North Korea. We are not facing an imminent threat of hostilities against the United States [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols The Group of 20 summit is over, and some conservatives -- after giving President Trump a mulligan for his clumsy outing at NATO in May -- are [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols President Trump's record in his first 100 days, by any standard of presidential first terms, is one of failure. Aside from the successful nomination of the eminently [...]

Byline: Tom Nichols The president fired all the ambassadors! He's issuing executive orders! He's putting political cronies into trusted positions! He's declaring his inauguration to be a special national day! [...]