Chris Matthews has worked as a political aide, author, broadcast host, and journalist. He is the author of This Country: My Life in Politics and History and Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked. He is a senior fellow at The Charles F. Kettering Foundation.
The slain U.S. senator, like his martyred brother, knew how important it was to concede defeat—a lesson Trump still hasn’t learned.
Trump’s uniquely toxic brand of “self-reliance” threatens the collective strength that truly makes America great.
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Donald Trump wants to bring back the spoils system. The Netflix miniseries is an entertaining tale of why we should never do that.
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Shocking slayings and the background of Trump’s dysfunction cast a pall over the holidays.
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The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated.
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It’s slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. A former senior Biden official offers a progressive blueprint to fix it.
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Subsidies for Scholarship Granting Organizations, the latest rage on the right, are being sold as a brilliant innovation to help underprivileged kids. Don’t fall for it.
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Israel isn’t going to disappear and calling for its liquidation spurs antisemitism. There’s a better way.
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