Congress is quietly becoming a European-style parliament — and the transformation isn’t for the good. The issue helps explain the brutal bitterness of today’s politics. ...
Images of the human horror in Syria filled the world’s news screens this week: Infants, children, teens, adults, some strong, some weak, all helpless and hopeless. Mouth...
Gen. Abdel Fattah Sisi’s Egypt holds at least 40,000 political prisoners, secular democrats as well as Islamic extremists. His security forces have killed thousands — at...
If there is one operative rule in this city’s left-right paradigm, it is to shift the focus of any conversation that seems at risk of revealing something approximating t...
Judge Neil Gorsuch, a thoughtful conservative who is President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, likely wins Senate confirmation this week. The question is u...
Throughout its history, the United States Senate has experienced disgraceful filibusters (Strom Thurmond against the 1957 Civil Rights Act), entertaining filibusters (Hu...
The political disaster that was the non-repeal of ObamaCare last month was bad enough. But now its recriminatory aftershocks, fully joined by President Donald Trump hims...
Trump will be heading back to Mar-a-Lago soon, spending millions of taxpayer dollars for another weekend at his 126-room beachfront palace. Many of his critics will roll...
Forget about the House intelligence committee when it comes to investigating whether Russia stuck its snout into our election. The panel, as led by its Republican chairm...
The recent Republican debacle on health care could prove to be an opportunity. It highlighted, yet again, the complexity of America’s system, which continues to be by fa...
