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To read some of the accounts of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation process would be to believe history had been turned on its head because her nominatio...

There he was on TV in front of me, Joe Biden accepting the Democratic nomination for president and outlining the nation’s incredible challenges — COVI...

This has been the most damaging lie our president has told and thousands are dying. President Trump was indeed warned about COVID-19 and chose to igno...

Just days before the 2008 Democratic presidential caucuses in Iowa, Hillary Clinton led Barack Obama by four points in the RealClearPolitics average o...

President Donald Trump recently did a wrong thing, then a right thing, then another right thing, then another right thing and a wrong thing in trying ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump did defy history in the 2018 midterm elections. While his predecessor, Barack Obama, lost 63 House seats and six Senate s...

There’s a cynical saying in politics that goes something like: Never let a good crisis go to waste. We’ve certainly seen that tenet applied as politic...

The instant analysis on cable TV of President Donald Trump's decision to dump the Iran deal had a weary resignation to it: He said he would do this. I...

WASHINGTON — The prospect of winning the Nobel Peace Prize is understandably tantalizing for President Trump. After all the contempt he has faced from...

WASHINGTON — Among the recent garbled effusions from today's temporary president — cheer up; they are all temporary — was one that concerned something...

James Comey did it, naturally, for the children. Why does anyone in Washington take advantage of the most opportune moment to make a mint off publishi...

WASHINGTON -- As sabers rattle ever louder across fields, plains, oceans and deserts, President Trump's words from earlier this year haunt the stable ...

WASHINGTON — On April 22, 1915, chlorine gas, wafted by favorable breezes, drifted from German lines toward enemy positions held by French troops near...

WASHINGTON — During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump excoriated President Barack Obama for "the way he got out of Iraq," which Trump said "was the foun...

One by one, the artifacts of President Barack Obama's rule by administrative fiat are tumbling. The latest is his signature Clean Power Plan that Envi...

WASHINGTON — 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 chamb...

WASHINGTON—In collecting $400,000 from a Wall Street investment firm to make a single speech, Barack Obama is following in the Gucci-clad footsteps of...

WASHINGTON — The question of the moment is what to make of the normalization of President Trump. Not normalization in the way used by the Trump resist...

The circumstantial evidence is mounting that the Kremlin succeeded in infiltrating the U.S. government at the highest levels. How else to explain a ne...

The Trump administration is in the throes of one of the greatest self-inflicted distractions of the modern presidency. The latest chapter comes from J...