Two essays this week, by two very different authors, take us deep into the tribalism that marks our politics. Both should serve as a wake-up… Continue reading
There’s a line in Hillary Clinton’s new memoir of the 2016 campaign that may be among the most searingly honest utterances of her long career… Continue reading
Quite beyond being morally repugnant and an offense to human decency, the Trump White House’s announcement Tuesday that it’s rescinding the “Deferred Action for Childhood… Continue reading
Earlier this month, at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., President Donald Trump looked solemnly into the camera, and declared that America’s opioid epidemic was… Continue reading
It’s already pretty clear that, in the Trump White House, the left hand often doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. Now we have… Continue reading
ATHENS, Ga. - All that’s left of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is the steeple. The red brick is faded and the windows are boarded up.… Continue reading
OUTSIDE WINCHESTER, Va. - We were driving up Interstate 81 last Sunday afternoon, the radio on, the sun setting into the hills, when we passed… Continue reading
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - It’s a rainy and humid afternoon in mid-August and General George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, and I are talking about… Continue reading
A North Carolina man walks into a popular Washington, D.C. pizzeria and opens fire, telling police upon his inevitable arrest that he came to “self-investigate”… Continue reading
Dear Forgotten Men and Women of America: I bear sad tidings: President Donald Trump appears to have forgotten all about you. “Corporations have NEVER made… Continue reading
President Donald Trump, who went to a private military academy and avoided service in Vietnam while heroes like Sen. John McCain languished in North Vietnamese… Continue reading
If you’re a journalist who covers campaigns and politics, the recent news of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s diagnosis of a particularly aggressive form of brain… Continue reading
A year ago this week, newly anointed as his party’s candidate for president, Donald J. Trump capped the Republican National Convention in Cleveland by ascending… Continue reading
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to call his son, Don Jr., now surely the Fredo Trumpleone of America’s ruling clan, a “great… Continue reading
CARLISLE, Pa. - Gabrielle Trinkle has plenty she’d like to say to U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey. If only she could find him. Trinkle, 28, a… Continue reading
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf hit the nail on the head last week when he refused to play along with the Trump administration’s invasive and unwarranted… Continue reading
Senate Republicans better get ready for some fireworks. Their July 4 recess is going to be a hot one. Earlier this week, with Republican ranks… Continue reading
In the annals of political gerrymandering, Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District is notorious. Running west through the Philadelphia suburbs, it takes in a giant chunk of… Continue reading
It’s time to own it, Republicans: You’ve had seven years to come up with a credible alternative to Obamacare. And when your clutch moment came,… Continue reading
On Wednesday morning, Washington rightly fretted over the fate of a Republican congressman and three others felled by a gunman’s fire in suburban Alexandria, Va.,… Continue reading
