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Will 2026 be a “blue wave” election for Democrats? To listen to the media and more and more Democrats, the answer is yes. But hold on. Yes, we’ve seen a string of GOP losses in special elections, with the media contrasting the winning percentages against President Donald Trump’s performance in 2024. But political waves are more […]
“An Inconvenient Truth,” the title of Al Gore’s book and the 2006 documentary on his warnings about global warming and climate change, has taken on a whole new meaning. We are a nation awash in truths swept aside as inconvenient, particularly the truths about ourselves and our country. The former vice president was ahead of […]
The only sure things in life for Americans are death and taxes. And since the World War III can was kicked past April 15, Americans of a certain age are forced to reckon with at least one of life’s inevitables this month. If you’re a President Donald Trump voter, you may be wondering why your […]
When then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton happened to meet on the tarmac in Phoenix, they said they exchanged pleasantries about life, family and Brexit. The June 2016 chat, which continued on her plane, lasted about a half an hour. Back then, it was long enough to create a scandal, an inappropriate […]
Writing this column, I rarely stray far from the political path in my commentary. Today, I make an exception. Watching the Artemis II make its historic nine-day journey farther into space than any human before reminded me that great exploits, achieved with courage and vision, often inspire but, perhaps more important, can also unify us […]
In normal times, managing the House Committee on Homeland Security is tough. But in the midst of a department shutdown, it gets even tougher. “It is a high-pressure environment where policy, politics and national security collide,” said Hope Goins, Democratic staff director. “My role is to bring focus and discipline, to keep the team grounded […]
As past presidents have learned, dealing with either inflation or with jobs is tough enough. Dealing with both is exponentially harder.
Rep. James E. Clyburn is the go-to for both reassurance and resolve. That makes sense, since the South Carolina Democrat is a student of history — and has lived it. He chronicles some of the country’s past, and his own, in his book “The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who […]
There are two ways to look at what happened in Congress last week regarding President Donald Trump’s war against Iran. Looked at from one angle, the House and Senate, by narrow margins on largely party-line votes, rejected resolutions to end military operations against Iran. Taken up under an expedited procedure laid out by the War […]
There is no doubt that Iran is intent on not only getting a nuclear weapon but developing the technology to deliver it far beyond the region.
OPINION: Trump has always been a black-and-white thinker, and it’s worked out pretty well for him. But embracing fear might not be the best way to govern.
"We’re talking about the first branch of government, and that expertise needs to live in-house," says founder Travis Moore.
Hope and skepticism mix as southern Democrats look to the future. One telling gubernatorial race may end up being a senatorial rematch.
The president has to keep closing the gap between wages and prices that developed under Biden.
Donald Trump consistently says things that are easily disprovable, and yet there appear to be no consequences for him, Gonzales writes.
Trump has a good and getting better economic story to tell, if he would just turn down the noise and tell it, Winston writes.
Our own American civil rights history provides plenty of examples of law enforcement lawlessness, Curtis writes.
OPINION: While the Cuban regime’s downfall has long been Washington’s goal, if Cuba’s transition is botched, the White House will only have itself to blame.
While stoking outrage over the Trump administration's deportation efforts, Democrats could be missing an opportunity to lead on immigration reform.
‘Melania’ is aimed at people who love the circus of politics who are not political, who are interested in style, but less so in substance.