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WASHINGTON — One of the most confusing shifts of the Trump ascendancy is, on reflection, one of the most clarifying. Donald Trump's, Sarah Palin's and...

It’s the first week of January and the election returns are starting to trickle in. It’s not for the rich Democratic white Hillary Clinton who capture...

WASHINGTON — Gloom is a terrible way to ring out the old and despair is of no help in trying to imagine the new. So let us consider what good might co...

Back in October, a Marketplace-Edison Research Poll found that two-thirds of Donald Trump voters didn’t trust government-reported economic data, thank...

WASHINGTON — One of the hallmarks of our democratic system is its commitment to the peaceful transition of power. This practice comes with two importa...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — As usual, the year's end brings reflections and ruminations on what was and what is to be. This time around, however, it feels as t...

The annual War on Christmas, which began Black Friday, will finally end at New Year’s Day. There are three main reasons it ends on New Year’s Day. Fir...

Donald Trump was supposed to take over the Republican Party, but the question going forward will be whether the Republican Party takes over him. So fa...

Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump was elected, the environment is going to suffer. Both have supported horizontal fracking, the destruction of t...

WASHINGTON — Some things Donald Trump says enrage me while others get under my skin. The pronouncement that does both is his regular claim that until ...

WASHINGTON — You won. Welcome to hell. And to think, I thought you'd become president when hell froze over. Now that the election is finally behind us...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump needs to heal, not revel. That is, he must work on healing the divided country he is about to lead, not cont...

WASHINGTON — There is always the danger of allowing low expectations to become irrational exuberance when those expectations are marginally exceeded. ...

NEW YORK —Froufrou Fifth Avenue resembles a police state. Officers wielding gigantic guns guard Trump Tower, where President-elect Donald Trump conduc...

WASHINGTON — In the Trump movie now playing in the American theater, connecting all the dots requires the artistry of a mapmaker and the insight of a ...

In the course of a couple of tweets, Donald Trump may have ended the image of the GOP as the party of corporate America. After striking a Carrier deal...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has a problem that comes not from the cast of "Hamilton," but from Hamilton himself. In Federalist 68, Alexander Hamilton de...

WASHINGTON — After post-truth comes all-fake. The election of Donald Trump has seen the flowering of the post-truth landscape. Emotion outranks fact; ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has a problem that comes not from the cast of "Hamilton," but from Hamilton himself. In Federalist 68, Alexander Hamilton de...

WASHINGTON — The most amusing part of the Trump transition has been watching its effortless confounding of the media, often in fewer than 140 characte...