Harold Meyerson

This week, Californians are opening their mailboxes and text messages to find petitions they are urged to sign if they oppose waste and fraud in government spending. “Government has wasted billions of our tax dollars on homelessness and many other failed ... See more

Ambitious plans need smaller-scale tryouts, dry runs, trial balloons. And so it is that Donald Trump will shortly unveil his attempt to preempt an election. The ambitious preemption that he’s still working on, of course, is November’s congressional midter... See more

The Democrats’ ranking political weather vane has spoken. In a conversation with Jon Favreau on Pod Save America, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ventured onto what was for him new terrain, invoking the A-word—“apartheid”—to describe a nation that had once b... See more

Since Donald Trump became president again, our foreign and military policy can be summed up as Decapitations ‘R’ Us. Trump’s battle plan for his war on Iran appears modeled on his plan for Venezuela: take out the leader and hope that his replacement is tr... See more

Much has been made of the trap that President Trump sprang on congressional Democrats during his State of the Union address: baiting them to stand in response to his statement about valuing the protection of American citizens over the protection of “illeg... See more