Articles by Robert Zaller

What goes around, comes around. Seth Williams, the now-disgraced but still-serving district attorney of Philadelphia, made his bones by prosecuting a gaggle of local politicos…

“Hey, I’m president! I’m president! Can you believe it?!” That’s what Donald Trump said in celebrating the passage of the American Health Kill bill by…

Arkansas: Isn’t that the place the Clintons came from? Yes, indeed. And some of us will remember that the Man From Hope, as Bill Clinton…

More than six decades ago, sociologist C. Wright Mills warned of a “new universe of management and manipulation” that had entered American life, and that…

It’s clear that Donald Trump’s first hundred days haven’t turned out to be the walk in the park he envisioned. The most spectacularly unqualified and…

Orson Welles, the great American filmmaker, loved a good joke. He began his career with a radio broadcast about a Martian invasion of New Jersey…

Two Congressional committees, the one in the House at least temporarily sidelined by its chairman, Devin Nunes, are now investigating the question of Russian meddling…

Opening the Internet on my home computer, I am frequently greeted by a headline in garish yellow: “Ambition Can’t Wait.” Unlike other advertisements that clutter…

Almost every day, I get an invitation in my computer mailbox to join a petition calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump. How it is…

In writing about Donald Trump in these pages last spring, I pointed out that part of his appeal — and his value — lay in…