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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.
Politics

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...
Politics

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.”
Politics

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.
Politics

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.
Politics

Be Outraged with Me: Trump versus the Environment, Health Care, Ukraine, Basic Competence, Security and the Constitution

This is the second installment of my Trump Outrage Watch designed to help me (and you) keep track of his violations of the Constitution, laws, norms and ethics perpetrated at a mind-numbing pace.
Politics

Be Outraged with Me: The Trump List so Far

Niccolo Machiavelli, that cynical (or maybe just politically realistic) counselor to a medieval Prince, advised that he inflict “injuries all at one time so that, being tasted less, they...
Politics

Freak Show: Trump’s Error-Filled Speech to Congress Stoked the Chaos

If Democrats don’t hand him weaknesses he can exploit, Trump’s wholly-owned Republican Party should suffer significant losses in the 2026 mid-term election. Given how slavishly they support him, they’ll deserve it.
International

No Cards: Why did Trump Blow up his Visit with Zelensky?

What remains a mystery is why Trump is so wedded to Putin, who may have "something on" Trump that he could reveal and precipitate his downfall..
Politics

Threats, Pettiness and Payback on Trump’s First Day

Trump reviewed his favorite grievances, notably being charged with an "unprecedented” number of crimes by Biden’s “weaponized” Justice Department.
Politics

On the way out: What to Make of Biden’s Legacy?

Biden leaves wiyh terrible approval numbers. But in a CNN interview, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin observed that Harry Truman’s approval rating dropped to 22 percent in 1952, but he is now widely rated among the 10 top presidents.
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