Yes, Trump Is Weak. So Is Congress.

Editor’s note: Our Opinion section enjoyed a record audience in 2017. Here is a brief summary of some of the most popular opeds of the year. 1. Gregg Jarrett: Did the FBI and the Justice Department, plot to clear Hillary Clinton, bring down Trump? Fox News contributor Gregg Jarrett and Florida Attorney …

I often try to devote the last column I write each year to readers and their responses. In the old days, Dear Readers, you would put pen to paper and painstakingly write your comments, pop the letter into an envelope, write down the address and stick a stamp on, then mail it. Some sent hand-written cards.

Historians have long looked to a few key criteria in evaluating the beginning of a president’s administration. First and foremost, any new president should execute public duties with a commanding civility and poise befitting the nation’s chief executive, but without appearing aloof or haughty. As George …

Exactly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, Washington awoke to a government shutdown. Our elected officials, by a staggering series of missteps, had left their basic work undone yet again. Many of us look at this as another drama about the president. Mr. Trump is a uniquely dysfunctional chief …

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All of this put me in mind of another article published this weekend, this one by the novelist and feminist icon Margaret Atwood. “My fundamental position is that women are human beings,” she writes. “Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions. If they were …

On the evening of Jan. 20, 2017, the global elites meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum stopped chatting for a moment and turned to their screens to watch an inauguration speech being delivered 5,000 miles away, on Capitol Hill. They were horrified. The description by the …

Opinion polls give Mr. Trump a low rating, and I would, too, for character, personality and temperament. But I would give …. As an immigrant, I was concerned that the country I have grown to love was, to quote a recent Op-Ed article in your paper, beginning to undergo “a national descent into chaos.” Towns …

President Trump has inspired widespread outrage and disgust with his crude, racist disparagement of Haiti, El Salvador and African nations and the predominantly black and brown immigrants from these places. As horrifying as this remark was, his groundbreaking transparency provides an opportunity.

(The Wall Street Journal). All of these articles appear in the news sections of their publication, not in the opinion pages, where speculation might be more fitting. All this speculation raises a number of new questions in my mind: If this is just clickbait, to what impulse are we responding? Do we simply enjoy …