Donald Trump

Allen Abel reports from Washington as the U.S. president enjoys an off-week for Congress and meets an actual fan in Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro

Tabatha Southey: Michael Cohen’s testimony at Congress ruined childhood rhymes and taunts, and caused children to be utterly befuddled by all these important adults

The president’s former personal attorney, on the cusp of doing hard time in a penitentiary for lying to Congress, once again tells Congress his story

Allen Abel: Donald Harris’s rebuke over ’pot-smoking joy seeker’ stereotype is one thing the Democratic presidential contender is disinclined to talk about. Another is her time in Canada.

Allen Abel: In declaring a national emergency, the president veers from impromptu slam poetry to claiming he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. But, hey America, everything’s okay.

Allen Abel: If the state of the union is so happy and prosperous, why are the country’s politics so angry and noxious? Answer: the man at the rostrum.

Trump will deliver his second State of the Union address, this time with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over his shoulder. Watch it here.

Back as House Speaker after several years fighting a Republican majority, Pelosi has found her new political mission

Tabatha Southey: Millions of North Americans sought emergency refuge from cold temperatures and hot takes about what happened to all those record highs

Will it last, asks Allen Abel, or will Trump use the last bullet in his revolver to shoot himself in the foot?