Author: Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY

It has been a wearying political year, no question, but only you can give America this gift: a constructive presidency that will improve people’s lives.

Conservatives are setting aside policy priorities to vote for Biden and other Democrats. Would I be this honorable if our situations were reversed?

Most Americans didn’t vote for Trump or the GOP Senate. The time has come to consider new states, more justices and 18-year Supreme Court term limits.

Trump’s coronavirus performance art is dangerous for Americans and, he finally seems to realize, working well for a 2020 rival who is stuck at home.

Trump is stoking division even amid the coronavirus pandemic. Has he misjudged his country? We’ll know for sure in November, but history suggests yes.

I did not anticipate Barr’s perfidious misrepresentations, maddening Democratic caution or scandalous Republican indifference. Let’s clear things up.

Democrats can talkabout political dealsafter they’re running the table.That won’t happen unless theyuse the tactics that got Republicans this far.

Democrats can’t let Trump runout the impeachment clock as he laughs all the way to the bank and maybe even the polls. Start preparing the public now.

The whole country has been dragged into a presidential version of “L.A. Law” or “The Good Wife.” It’s all lawyers all the time in the Trump era.