Dick Polman

It's great that Jeff Flake stood up to Donald Trump's serial lies and dangerous toxicity, but, lest we forget our history, Flake's act was not unprecedented.

Jeff Flake's profile in courage comes with a big caveat.

It's not easy for a right-wing playpen to rid itself of a misogynist culture rooted in the 1950s.

The lowest moment of Trump's latest Gold Star misfire came on Friday when his mouthpiece decreed from a White House podium that military brass should be exempt from scrutiny.

George W. Bush stayed mum for eight years, refusing to publicly criticize Barack Obama. But yesterday he publicly eviscerated Donald Trump.

Imagine if Hillary Clinton were president, and she'd gone two weeks without saying a single word about the deadliest combat mission of her young tenure.

Let's briefly pause to celebrate the speedy downfall of a Trump apparatchik. Because it speaks to the resilience of our democratic institutions.

Donald Trump will never stop serial lying. It's a reflex. But on rare occasions, his lies are challenged in real time and we get the chance to see him squirm.

There's virtually no public support for Trump's piecemeal sabotage, but as always, he won't suffer political damage unless there's some kind of red-state grassroots revolt.

Take a wild guess why Michael Christopher Estes' thwarted domestic airport attack hasn't gone viral. Hint: He's not a Muslim.

It's truly a different world now for the man-child who finds himself in the White House stewing over press coverage that he is powerless to control.

Amidst his latest tweets, how many times has Trump worked his thumbs into a rage about the cancellation of the federal health insurance program that covers nine million kids?