WASHINGTON — The morning after, at breakfast at the Republicans’ Capitol Hill Club, Virginia Rep. Robert Goodlatte was, as befits one of Washington’s grown-ups, measured...
The Senate has produced an unusually swift and welcome response to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ disgraceful cover-up of its hospitals’ failure to treat patients i...
Faced with the prospect of either bypassing Congress or doing nothing about America’s poisonous greenhouse-gas emissions, President Obama made the right decision last we...
WASHINGTON — So much for the argument that having more people armed in public places will result in fewer gun deaths.
One of the three killed recently by a Las Vegas cou...
The commentary evoked by the recent prisoner swap — five terrorists in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — calls for context.
The trade was an unsavory arrangement, but Pr...
The opening sentence of the 325-page internal investigation report on a death-dealing scandal at General Motors paradoxically runs too long yet gets right to the point:
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WASHINGTON — On climate change, both Barack Obama and his harshest critics — business groups and Republicans — have a shared interest in exaggerating the impact of the p...
WASHINGTON — What is it with Susan Rice and the Sunday morning talk shows? This time she said Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had served in Afghanistan “with honor and distinction” —...
There’s a reason New York’s U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is near the top of the Democratic Party’s leadership — no position, no matter how unprincipled or demagogic, is a bri...
WASHINGTON — The controversy over Bowe Bergdahl has largely obscured what should have been an important initiative by the Obama administration. The president’s trip to P...
