Mort Kondracke

Morton Kondracke is a retired Washington, DC, journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, The New Republic, McLaughlin Group, FoxNews Special Report, Roll Call, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal) now living on Bainbridge Island. He continues to write regularly for (besides PostAlley) RealClearpolitics.com, mainly to advance the cause of political reform.

Trump Outrages: A Well-documented History of Violence Rhetoric

Which US politician has advocated, condoned or incited violence more than any other? Donald Trump.

Double-Barrel Outrage Watch: The Dismantlements of MAGA and MAHA

What Donald Trump and MAGA are doing to America is matched by what he and Robert Kennedy Jr. are doing with MAHA. Both are disasters for the country.

A Busy Week in Trump Outrages

Everything, everywhere, all at once. Any one of this week's outrages would be major scandal in other administrations. Collectively, they're the wholesale dismantling of norms that have prevailed for centuries.

Trump Outrage Watch: Rigging Statistics, Climate Roulette, and DC as a Police State

Serious as tampering with economic data is, perhaps more dangerous in the long run are the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in various environmental agencies’ science offices and their ability to keep track of, model and report climate change data

Trump Outrage Watch: Too Much Greatness Edition

Making the World Great Again During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump boasted that Russia’s war on Ukraine would never have occurred had he been in office and that he could...

This Week’s Trump Outrages, Epstein Edition

Trump and his aides are doing their best to divert attention from Epstein—notably by declaring that Barack Obama is guilty of treason.

What D’s Should Do: Move to the Center

The polling message is that Democrats are out of touch with most voters and need to move to the mainstream center. That's where Third Way is.

Outrage Watch: Iced Out as the Bombs Bust

The major outrage of this past month—protested in many cities—is the Trump administration’s ruthless “mass deportation” of undocumented immigrants— reminiscent of the rounding up escaped black slaves under the...

Outrage Watch: A “Mean Girls” Fight, Healthcare Hacks, and Attacks on Education

Donald Trump has been the King of Chaos since way back, but he etched new chapters with his pyrotechnic feud with Elon Musk.

Be Outraged with Me: Rob from the Poor for Tax Breaks for the Rich

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” that Donald Trump got the House to pass is 1,116 pages big, but scarcely beautiful. It hurts lower income Americans while benefiting rich ones...

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