The Bradford Era

WASHINGTON -- No Supreme Court nominee is a completely safe bet. No one -- not even the nominee himself or herself -- knows for certain how he or she ...

WASHINGTON — Many weeks — every week? — in the age of Trump are depressing. This last one has been sickening. That is strong language for a moment tha...

WASHINGTON — L'etat, c'est Trump. For months we've heard President Trump's TV lawyers, as he calls them, bandy about the argument that he — or any pre...

WASHINGTON — Congratulations, America, indeed. President Trump was being sarcastic when he tweeted, at 7:28 Thursday morning, "Congratulations America...

WASHINGTON — The nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency presents an exquisitely difficult choice for senators wei...

WASHINGTON — "Ladies' lingerie." It was a lame, outmoded joke — the sort of thing you say in a crowded elevator, an artifact of the days of fancy depa...

WASHINGTON —The nation's capital today suffers from multiple deficits: The budget deficit, a failure to match resources to appetite, measured in hard ...

WASHINGTON -- It feels some days as if the ordinary laws of political physics have been suspended. Politics operates by unseen but generally predictab...

WASHINGTON — "An attack on our country," a clearly agitated President Trump said of the search of his attorney's office and home. Of special counsel R...