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Gruff and tough Sen. John McCain, 11 days removed from brain cancer surgery, returned to Capitol Hill Tuesday in time to turn a feckless Republican exercise in damage co...

In January 1988, in Ronald Reagan’s final State of the Union address, he noisily dropped on a table next to the podium in the House chamber three recent continuing resol...

Eventually, everyone in this town seems to wind up with the word “poor” in front of his or her name. Such a fate is especially likely if one has associated with Donald T...

Democrats are so lost they don’t know how lost they are. Instead of working feverishly on the substance of a contrast with the imploding Trump administration, they decid...

President Trump has openly declared war on Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating the Russian saga. The president clearly wishes he could fire Mueller; his as...

If we learned anything from the bitter debate over the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) — which seems doubtful — it is that we cannot discuss health care in a way that is...

Behind every great column is a great editor — a truism never more so than when Alan Shearer puts highlighter (not red pen) to copy. Shearer, who has run The Washington P...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The aircraft arrayed around the spacious lawn of Maxwell Air Force Base, home of the Air University, mostly represent long-retired types. The largest,...

When George Romero died last weekend, he was almost universally hailed as the father of the zombie movie. The title was both too much and not enough. Romero’s “The Night...

President Donald Trump’s basis for wishing he had never named Jeff Sessions attorney general is much different than the reasons the American public should have the same ...