Matt Ford

@fordm

The president sends a message to his lawbreaking loyalists: Maintain silence and you'll earn your "get out of jail free" card.

One thing we're learning during impeachment hearings is that the president and his cronies are deeply invested in an uncheckable executive branch.

The House Intelligence Committee should give the president a chance to clear up this whole Ukraine matter with his first-hand knowledge.

Why didn't George Kent and William Taylor have firsthand knowledge of Trump's Ukraine activities? The president went around them on purpose.

Electoral losses in Kentucky and Virginia send conservatives down a rabbit hole of illiberalism.

As it turns out, it can be quite difficult to defend the indefensible.

A litany of naive decisions has enshrined a system in which the rot lives right out in the open.

They can't prove the president's innocence, so they're accusing Democrats of an anti-democratic, "Soviet-style" process.

The Sondland scandal should prompt lawmakers to end the practice of rewarding deep-pocketed cronies with plum overseas postings.

The Beltway pundit set should, perhaps, take his baseball-fan opponents seriously, not literally.

Lacking any defense on the merits, the president wants his allies to delegitimize the impeachment inquiry—and be seen doing it.

It's still unlikely he'll be removed from office but the president has not provided allies with anything resembling a cogent defense.

The attorney general believes the Christian hegemony is essential to American democracy, and wants to leverage state power to uphold it.

The one constant thread in this week's chaos storm of news is that every effort to defend the president only makes things worse for him.

This week provides a fresh reminder that the president may need to stay in office to stay out of the courtroom.

Four debates in, the candidates have yet to address the ballot barriers and purges that threaten their chances in the next election.

A Supreme Court shortlist released on Tuesday marks the beginning of an effort to counter conservative judicial dominance.

Desperate to stand out, he has proposed perhaps the worst idea of the Democratic primary.

The indictment of two shady cronies of Rudy Giuliani only proves that the real crime is what's legal.

Tuesday’s scorched-earth letter to the House uses defiance to mask its self-inflicted defeats.