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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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..

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