Editorial/Opinion

While Trump and his top advisors were in a meeting in the weeks leading up to the military strike on Caracas, Venezuela, to extract President Nicolás Maduro, they kept running into the same roadblock.

We can differ on the extent to which guns can be controlled, federal regulations, national health care or the tax code.

That’s an underappreciated feature of our political age: It’s not just that things are bad, it’s that they’re relentlessly so. You can’t turn it off. You can’t escape it.