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With as much screaming and yelling as we’ve heard from the Left since Trump became president, we almost forget that it’s not really the Republicans who are in trouble these days. Sure, plenty of people on both sides of the aisle aren’t exactly thrilled with a President Trump, but the Republican Party itself even with the headaches in Congress, is still winning elections. Not so much for the Democrats. And sheesh, when you’ve lost TIME magazine?

When Robert Mueller was first appointed Special Counsel, I thought, given his generally good reputation, that this might be a streamlined process with fewer leaks, focused on either proving or disproving allegations of Russian interference. But I did acknowledge, for example in this radio interview, that there was a risk that in the wrong hands the powers vested under the Order appointing Mueller could be abused: “He will have the authority to investigate and the authority to prosecute any crimes that he finds, and the scope of what he’s investigating under the order is fairly broad, it’s anything related to...

Last week, Time Magazine gave us a glimpse of evil with their Steve Bannon cover. This week, with their Chuck Schumer cover photo (taken by Platon), they’ve given us the opposite (aesthetically speaking). In terms of composition, the two covers are remarkably similar – two faces front and center, nothing else (aside from those hands in the case of Bannon). Noting this similarity (both in composition and in terms of political subject), we can, indeed, we are prompted to place the two covers in conversation with one another. What then to make of the Schumer cover? We are given nothing...

Not a photoshop

Can anyone tell me who the artist is who painted Bush's portrait for the "Man of the Year" cover for Time this week?