The meeting in the east room of the White House was billed as a chance to “reset” the relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but her first face-to-face meeting with President Donald Trump was an exercise in chilly correctness....
I learned through the network of people who worked for Jimmy Carter
that Pat Caddell, the pollster who helped elect him president, had
passed away Sunday morning at age 68 in Charleston, South Carolina, not
far from where he...
Jimmy Carter won the presidency in 1976 because he understood the mood of the country, and because his message of populist reform reached disaffected voters in a way that eluded other more established politicians vying for...
A mild case of COVID for many people resembles a cold, a comforting illusion that President Joe Biden’s recent bout with the virus reinforced even when another positive test returned him to quarantine. And yet, for all the happy...
When House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff gavels to order the first impeachment hearing of a president in 21 years on Wednesday morning, it will not be his first rodeo. A decade ago, he led the impeachment process in the...
At the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron, an organization of journalists founded in 1885, there is only one toast, and it’s to the president. For some members and guests, this now poses a quandary. As we raised our...
The Kremlin wanted Ronald Reagan defeated. Soviet leaders worried with some justification that he would start a war. Reagan waged his 1980 campaign with such red-meat Cold War rhetoric that the London branch of the KGB warned Moscow that...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske left his job at the Department of Homeland Security at 12:01 p.m. on Jan. 20, just as Donald Trump was taking the oath of office. No one from the Trump team contacted him...
The polls have not been kind to President Trump, whose approval rating has declined since he took office despite his boasts that everything is great. To get behind the numbers and understand why some voters are losing faith in...
You reap what you sow, and Republicans are paying the price for elevating a minority within their party. It is democracy run amok when the country teeters on the edge of default because of a small number of Tea...