It is President Trump's own fault that he got so lustily booed at the World Series game. When you publicly refer to people as "human scum," they are likely to return the favor.

The most powerful office in the world is occupied -- and being abused -- by a man who is entirely unfit and is spinning dangerously out of control. Everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise.

"It is impossible to prepare for an apocalypse," Dr. Duane Sands, the health minister of the Bahamas, told reporters.  Somehow, though, we all had better try.

President Trump is conducting his trade war with China as if it were a zero-sum game, but it's not. It's a negative-sum game. Both sides lose.

Is it my imagination, or is President Trump's chronic and debilitating case of Obama Envy getting worse?

WASHINGTON -- Uh-oh. President Trump is in such a state of panic about his dimming reelection prospects that he's getting his lies mixed up and occasionally blurting out the truth.

It is not just his stoking of white supremacist sentiment that makes Donald Trump such a dangerously unfit president. It's also the corruption, the weakness, the ignorance, the incompetence and the stunning lack of empathy – all of which we just saw on grotesque display.

The erratic Trump administration has had just one consistent policy principle, one guiding North Star: punitive and often sadistic treatment of nonwhite immigrants.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party may not have pulled the triggers, but they still bear some responsibility for the weekend's atrocities. The only way to keep military-style weapons of war out of the clutches of would-be mass killers is to take away McConnell's …

When the racist chant began on July night – "Send her back! Send her back!" – President Trump paused to let the white-supremacist anger he had stoked wash over him. George Wallace would have been so proud.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes opening an impeachment inquiry into President Trump's misdeeds would be risky. She needs to realize that not doing so is beginning to look riskier.

President Trump chose the wrong backdrop for his attempt to make Independence Day all about himself. Standing beneath the majestic statue of Abraham Lincoln, occupying a space where great orators have stood, Trump looked and sounded quite small.

Justin Amash finally said out loud what many other Republicans know but will only whisper: "President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment." Amash's party may never forgive him. His nation ought to thank him.

Hatred, resentment, white supremacy and victimhood are deadly political tools. President Trump wields them with no thought to the consequences – and people die.

Forget everything else for a moment and behold infinity.

Last year was officially proclaimed the fourth-warmest on record; scientists predict that melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland could not only raise sea levels but further destabilize weather patterns; and progressive members of Congress are proposing a "Green New Deal," the first policy f…

Who's afraid of the Green New Deal? I'm not. It's ambitious, aspirational, improbable, impractical – almost as audacious as putting a man on the moon. We used to be able to think big. Let's do it again.

We have a national emergency, all right. Its name is Donald Trump, and it is a force of mindless, pointless disruption.

Of all the crackpots on social media, is any more untethered to reality than the president of the United States?

As the shambolic Trump presidency caroms and lurches into Year Three, a shameful governing philosophy has emerged: cruelty for cruelty's sake.

Contrary to legend, Marie Antoinette probably never actually said "let them eat cake." The Trump administration is saying it loud and clear, though, to government workers who have now gone more than a month without a paycheck.

The government isn't shut down because of President Trump's unbelievable cluelessness as a deal-maker. It's shut down because of his many fears.

For the new year, critics of President Trump should resolve not to be intimidated by the potential wrath of his vaunted political base. The only one who should cower before the Make America Great Again legions is Trump himself.

It didn't take long Thursday for President Trump's tweeted complaint about the Robert Mueller probe -- "will it just go on forever?" -- to look like wishful thinking. Michael Cohen's blockbuster court appearance made it clear that Trump is (BEG ITAL)really(END ITAL) going to hate the way the…

WASHINGTON -- President Trump and the Republican Party have run the most racist national political campaign since the 1968 presidential bid of segregationist George Wallace. We shall soon see how much the country has changed in 50 years -- and in what direction.

Dear Democrats,

If a "blue wave" does let Democrats seize the House, protect endangered Senate seats and win key governorships, it looks likely that the party will have African-American women to thank.

Here is how to interpret the alarming new United Nations-sponsored report on global warming: We are living in a horror movie. The world needs statesmen to lead the way to safety. Instead we have President Trump, who essentially says, "Hey, let's all head to the dark, creepy basement where th…

If that hearing could possibly have gone worse, please tell me how.

Journalist Bob Woodward's new book and an op-ed by an anonymous administration official portray President Trump as dangerously capricious and amoral, exhibiting textbook symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and behaving in ways that suggest, to some, early signs of age-related dementia.

President Trump's bigoted hatred of Latino immigrants has been clear from the beginning. Now his administration is aggressively persecuting Latino citizens as well.

There's a reason why President Trump increasingly sounds like the mob boss in a cliche-ridden gangster film: That's basically what he is – and he must know how such movies usually end.

Whenever the Trump administration ends, we already have its shameful epitaph: "Truth isn't truth."

It's hard to take Omarosa Manigault Newman's word for anything. But Lordy she has tapes, and they offer vivid proof that Donald Trump's White House is part clown show, part nest of vipers.

Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76, was more than the undisputed "Queen of Soul." She was one of the most important musicians of our time, a genius who soared above genres and expectations to create music that will live forever.

It's hard to take Omarosa Manigault Newman's word for anything. But Lordy she has tapes, and they offer vivid proof that Donald Trump's White House is part clown show, part nest of vipers.

Republicans are afraid they cannot stop Democrats from making big gains in November, so they're trying to convince Democrats to stop themselves. For the sake of the nation, don't fall for it this time.

President Trump is succeeding wildly in one clear, if unannounced, objective: to Make Russia Great Again.

WASHINGTON -- Let me get this straight. President Trump and his associates treat politics like a back-alley knife fight, but his critics are supposed to pretend it's a garden party? I don't think so.

Once again, President Trump has made a cowardly, cynical and monumentally stupid retreat on the issue of guns. Forget everything he said in the wake of the Parkland shooting about the urgent need for meaningful action. Trump now takes a position that will almost surely guarantee more gun vio…

The ceaseless barrage of news -- both real and fake -- from the Trump administration can be numbing, so it's important to step back every once in a while and look at the big picture: Never have we seen such utter chaos and blatant corruption.

The deliberately outrageous idea of arming classroom teachers is nothing more than a distraction, a ploy by the gun lobby to buy time for passions to cool. Don't get sidetracked. Keep the focus where it belongs – on keeping military-style assault rifles out of civilian hands.

Don't tell me the issue is mental health. The truth is this: There would have been no tragic shooting February 14 in Parkland, Florida, if a troubled young man had not gotten his hands on a military-style assault rifle and as much ammunition as he wanted.

Voters who thought President Trump would at least try to fulfill his populist, America-first campaign promises were cynically and cruelly deceived. Trump placates these supporters with rhetoric, distracts them with cultural warfare, and encourages them to seek refuge in cultural chauvinism. …

President Trump's immigration proposal reveals what he has been after all along: an end to family-based immigration and the "lottery visa," which would mean fewer Latino, African and Muslim newcomers. Yes, Trump is trying to Make America White Again.

Wait, back up a minute. We just zoomed past a story that would have been a five-alarm scandal for any other administration, with weeks of screaming front-page headlines: "The President and the Porn Star."

If you want to know President Trump's position on any given policy issue, the last person you should ask is President Trump. He has no idea what he thinks.

The White House is being used to stage some kind of dark, dystopian comedy in which all the humor is of the gallows variety. Somebody tell me how we survive another three years of this oppressive, exhausting show.