In an election cycle with a sitting vice president suddenly elevated to become her party’s nominee, and a former president, now the challenger, grazed by an assassin’s bullet, the American people have gotten a crash course in why veeps...
Canceling an award-winning comedian because she might hurt President Trump’s feelings? That’s one more casualty in the administration’s war on the media. I don’t applaud the decision. And—full disclosure—I am a member of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA),...
Kermit the Frog said it best: It’s not easy being green. And now the Reflecting Pool, sickly green with algae, is D.C.’s top tourist attraction, a metaphor for what Trump has done to curdle his presidency. Another top stop...
Republicans have the edge in fundraising leading up to the November midterm elections, bolstered by small donors enthusiastic about President Trump and a stable of billionaires including the Koch Brothers, who just pledged $400 million to help Republicans retain...
Richard Cordray remembers visiting Washington as a kid, and one of the really hot destinations was always the FBI building. “They had all this cool stuff,” he says, citing the weaponry on display along with the photos that told the...
With an Obama second term looking like a better than even probability, short of sweeping both chambers of Congress, can the newly reelected president break the stalemate in Washington and govern successfully? He says the partisan fever will break...
If you go by the numbers, President Trump is in a stronger position
to win reelection than Bill Clinton was at the same point in his
presidency. Trump’s job approval is 46 percent in the latest NBC-Wall
Street Journal...
So we've made it through Labor Day weekend, and for Democrats that means the primary contest enters a new phase and it’s time to get serious about picking a winner. In any other presidential cycle, Democrats would have the...
Senator Susan Collins is fighting for her political life with a new television ad that says “in a time of crisis, real leaders step forward. Others disappear.” The ad touts that the Maine Republican co-wrote the Paycheck Protection Program...
It’s one thing to preach unity, another to make it happen. Joe Biden needs Mitch McConnell the way the Earth needs the sun if he is to accomplish anything in the most closely divided Congress in memory. A Senate...