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 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...

This Week in Trump Outrages: Habeas, Corruption and Dismantling the Research State

The watchdog group Accountable.US terms Trump’s crypto activity alone “the most nakedly corrupt scheme of self-enrichment in US presidential history.”

Trump’s First 100 Days: Chaos, Outrages and Stunning Incompetence

He’s trying to dominate or dismantle practically every institution in America—Congress, universities, the federal bureaucracy, independent federal agencies, the Federal Reserve, the states, law firms, the media and foundations whose activities he opposes.

Be Outraged with Me: Tariffs, Free Speech and Security

This week, it was extreme volatility—and uncertainty— on tariffs that might raise prices, crush markets and savings, cost jobs and alienate allies and perhaps bring on a recession; new threats to free speech, and firing of top national security officials on the say-so of a wild conspiracist.

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