Debra Saunders

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Jan 30, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Caroline Kennedy, the surviving child of the late President John F. Kennedy, is leading the charge against her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services.

In a letter released Tuesday, she wrote that her cousin Bobby's "views on vaccines are dangerous and ...Read more

The Trump Briefings Are Back. Everyone Behaved and It Was Boring

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Jan 28, 2025

WASHINGTON -- The first daily press briefing of President Donald Trump 2.0 was not what many predicted last year. Before Trump re-took the White House, there had been speculation that Trump World would eject the daily press briefings from the James S. Brady briefing room with its 49 seats and standing room in the aisles.

That didn't happen. ...Read more

The End of the First Week of the Second First Year

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Jan 25, 2025

WASHINGTON -- What did President Donald Trump learn during his four-year hiatus from the White House? For one thing, he seems to have learned how to listen. But also, to judge by the first week of his second term, Trump 2.0 seems more focused, mission-driven and prepared to get things done at warp speed.

Here's a short list of other lessons ...Read more

Laken Riley Act an Early Trump Win, Democrat Surrender

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Jan 24, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Democrats are afraid, very afraid. This week, 12 Senate Democrats and 46 House Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the Laken Riley Act, which requires the Department of Homeland Security to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting.

Expect President Donald Trump to ...Read more

President Donald Trump. He's Back

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Jan 20, 2025

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump got straight to the point when he delivered his Inaugural Address Monday inside the Capitol. There are things he wants to do in the next four years.

But of course on this cold Monday, Trump could not fail to mention his own personal triumph --winning in 2024 after losing reelection in 2020, two ...Read more

Joe Biden's Vaunted Sense of His Own 'Decency' Led to His Undoing

From the Right / Debra Saunders / Jan 17, 2025

WASHINGTON -- I remember when the networks called the 2020 election for President Joe Biden. It was a Saturday; that evening, as he addressed his gleeful supporters in Wilmington, Delaware, the new president-elect declared victory in "the battle to restore decency."

"Decency," of course, was code for "Not Trump."

Before Biden's one term ...Read more