To extend the metaphor from this space a week ago, my email inbox spilled over with responses about my column headlined “Having a laugh over spilled milk.” Before proceeding with one note in ...

Although Donald Trump’s detractors often dismiss him as a clown, a real-life clown is crying foul at that description — no joke. For instance, back in March, never-Trumper George Conway criticized the ...

“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” This re-work of an old Turkish proverb from British academic Elizabeth Bangs describes the Trump presidency ...