News commentary
Courts keep ruling against Trump. But they can’t save our democracy singlehandedly.
Decisions on the White House ballroom, public media and journalists’ access to the Pentagon are heartening. But restoring our institutions is up to us
In another one of those strange and unprecedented moments of the Trump years, the president of the United States showed up at the supreme court the other day. No other presidents have done so, probably because they – to varying degrees – respected the separation of power among the three branches of US government.
But Trump has not shown himself to share in that basic principle.