Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a “rigged system” that still doesn't have the “right people” in place to fix it …

Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades.  He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration …

‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages … Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center.  —  These are the darkest days in at least half a year …

Trump Jokes Melania Might Leave Him at Gridiron Dinner … Just a few hours after he suggested that perhaps America should follow China's lead with the whole “president for life” thing, President Donald Trump took the stage to tell some jokes at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner …

Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs … President Trump on Saturday threatened to hammer European automotive companies with steep tariffs as his global trade war snowballed into a third day.  —  Trump, in a series of Twitter posts while at his Mar …

The Right Can't Fight the Future … It seems axiomatic that the past and the future cannot exist at the same time.  Thanks to the space-time continuum, people from different centuries cannot live simultaneously.  The same goes for a nation, which cannot survive pulling toward the future and toward the past at once.

Trade War, What Is It Good For?  Absolutely Nothing  —  We've known all along that Donald Trump is belligerently ignorant about economics (and many other things).  But up to this point that hasn't mattered much.  He took office amid a sustained recovery that began under his predecessor …

When Should Cultural Institutions Say No to Tainted Funding?  —  On Monday afternoon, Jerry Saltz, the longtime art critic at New York Magazine, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has gone nearly once a week for three decades.  After two hours of taking in “Golden Kingdoms …

36 women flood Texas races to flip male-dominated House seats blue  —  “We have a reached a tipping point.”  —  Fueled by anti-Trump backlash, a surge of women are putting their names on the ballot and running for office in Texas, with potentially momentous implications for the balance of power in the deep red state.

Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast  —  Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies.  —  Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher …

M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers dies at 75  —  M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers died of cancer on Saturday, his agent confirmed.  He was 75.  —  “I am very sad to report that David died this morning March 3, 2018 peacefully at his home in Newport, Oregon after a courageous battle with bladder cancer …

Trump confidant Chris Ruddy on the president's ‘inner Democrat’  —  You don't just roll up for lunch at Mar-a-Lago.  It's a private members club.  And also, most winter weekends, it is the residence of the president of the United States.  As a result, Chris Ruddy suggests we meet at my hotel …

Publicly slighting millions of NRA members isn't good for business - or America  —  Remember when companies tried to stay out of politics?  I'd imagine Delta Air Lines is recalling those days very fondly.  The airline bowed to pressure from liberal activists to stop offering a group discount …

Florida Senate briefly approves AR-15 ban, then rejects it  —  Surprise action in extraordinary all-day Saturday session on gun measures  —  TALLAHASSEE — On a day filled with emotion, the Florida Senate Saturday debated measures in response to the Parkland tragedy to spend millions …

Let's Bag Plastic Bags  —  All it had taken was a moment's distraction.  In a well-practiced sleight of hand, the cashier had double-bagged in plastic a dozen eggs, which were already encased in two protective layers of plastic.  I briefly contemplated appealing for the liberation of my groceries …