Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.” Donald ...

Now, as Trump breaks another norm – and American political tradition – by inviting foreign presidents and prime ministers to his Jan. 20 inauguration, these firebrands are at the top of his list.

This is progress. In Mr. Trump’s first term the media’s phrase of art for the new president was “norm breaker.” It wasn’t a compliment, though the notion that Mr. Trump was violating ...

President Donald Trump is taking an unorthodox path to shake up Washington and change federal policy to his priorities.

Donald Trump comes to almost any public matter prepared to wage a war of words — and, as President Gustavo Petro of Colombia learned over the weekend, he is ready to back up his words with ...

Unity!" But in Biden's farewell address Wednesday night, it seemed more likely that his four years were the aberration while Trump has become the driving norm. Biden seemed to acknowledge as much ...

But the formal framework could not obscure the enormity of the change in Washington and how the extraordinary has become the norm in what is again the Trump White House. It’s not just the ...

“People can make the argument that at least that’s a return to the norm because of what we had been getting from the other side.” Trump posted to his social media platform on Christmas ...