There's an easy solution and a hard one to the proliferation of lies presented as journalismâand the easy solution isn't all that... Read More
“Fake stories” are in the news. The narrative goes something like this: fabricated accounts that misrepresent “the... Read More
Famed Bill Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg said Hillary Clinton's lack of economic message drove Reagan Democrats back to their roots. Read More
I learned these principles from working with President Reagan on dramatic change in the 1980s and then leading the Contract with America with... Read More
Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee is a huge critic of public schools and has pushed to steer taxpayer dollars to charter... Read More
My final interview with President Obama in the White House had been scheduled for the day after the presidential election. I had hoped to... Read More
The Democrats, who seem to have trouble respecting the legitimacy of their defeats at the ballot box, seem to be taking Hillary... Read More
On the day after Donald Trump won the election, one of his campaign's advisers and endorsers made a prediction. "You are going to see a... Read More
Is political Islam in America’s best interests? This question should be central to our strategy of fighting ISIS and Islamist terrorism... Read More
Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, faces a Senate confirmation hearing in January. Already, Democrats have revived... Read More
Let’s start with some simple math. Republicans are expected to hold 52 Senate seats in the 115th Congress. Of those 52 Republicans, 12... Read More
On Oct. 30, the Chicago Cubs were down three games to one, just a loss away from blowing their chance at a first World Series championship in... Read More
A "newly vibrant Washington" is evidence that Suzanne Collins's novels were either unwittingly or on purpose about the growth of the capital... Read More
Donald Trump leveled Twitter yesterday with a 100-megaton stink bomb, asserting without a scrap of evidence that if millions of illegal... Read More
Just when they thought it was safe to go outside again, the political press is breaking out the smelling salts again. They’re back to... Read More
Betsy DeVos favors school choice and helped pass Michigan’s first charter-school bill. Read More
Maybe you’ve heard this story line before. With the blithe stroke of a pen and without congressional approval, President Obama gave... Read More
As Democrats hold their House leadership elections today, they are met with the stinging reality that they are now a party lost in the... Read More
In an age of political polarization, one of the few values with near-universal bipartisan support is upward mobility—the idea that poor... Read More
From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue,... Read More
When it comes to losing, I’m very much from the Vince Lombardi school: ‘Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a... Read More
Donald Trump on Sunday claimed without any evidence that “millions” of people had illegally voted for his opponent in the... Read More
The news media, in the aftermath of their self-perceived failure to prevent a Donald Trump presidential victory, are throwing a temper... Read More
There's a reason why authoritarians typically begin by assailing the press. Read More
While President-Elect Donald Trump is focused strongly on keeping jobs from going to Mexico and China, he must also fight to deliver on... Read More
When John Doar died in 2014, Barack Obama, who’d already awardedhim the Presidential Medal of Freedom, called him “one of... Read More
Pundits are terrible at predicting presidencies; remember the hymns to the greatness of the Second Lincoln, the New Roosevelt, and the... Read More
One of the strangest episodes in Donald Trump’s very weird campaign was the appearance of an Englishman looking rather pleased with... Read More
Democrats, of late, have taken to citing Hillary Clinton's historically large popular vote victory in the presidential race over Donald Trump... Read More
Democrats are already calling for hearings and investigations into Donald Trump’s expansive business empire and potential conflicts of... Read More
In May 1986, a 39-year-old Manhattan real estate developer named Donald Trump promised to get Wollman Rink in Central Park up and running --... Read More
The attack on Monday, by Abdul Razak Ali Artan, could have come straight out of the Islamic State's manualâand it appears to have... Read More
ObamaCare: Tom Price, the Republican congressman and former physician from Georgia, has been named by Donald Trump to head the Department of... Read More
When Donald Trump, hand on the Bible on Jan. 20, swears to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, we the people... Read More
Could America be on the brink of a restoration of true Second Amendment rights? Could even states like New York be covered by the article of... Read More
The US Army Corps of Engineers is known for many things â the Panama Canal, the Cape Cod Canal, the Washington Monument. But it's... Read More
Donald Trump might be the president-elect, but not much else has changed.Like his campaign, Trump’s transition to the White House has been lively and unpredictable — marked by Twitter rants, strategic detours, and internal disputes spilling into public view. Read More
Donald Trump can phone a friend when he has a question about governing. And most improbably, that valued resource turns out to be President Obama, who took Trump’s call Saturday – and not for the first time.A 45-minute “consultation” is how White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest described their weekend conversation, one of “a handful” of telephone exchanges th Read More
Democrats are already calling for hearings and investigations into Donald Trump’s expansive business empire and potential conflicts of interest as he prepares to take office, but Republicans are urging caution, pledging to give Trump time to sort out his commercial enterprises and separate them from his governance. It’s an early round of what’s likely to be an ongoing battle on C Read More
