opinion

WASHINGTON — This week brings a constitutional moment illustrating a paradox of Barack Obama’s presidency. The catalyst of the drama is legislation pr...

HARRISBURG (AP) — This month marks six years since Arlen Specter switched parties to become a Democrat, upending Pennsylvania’s 2010 U.S. Senate campa...

WASHINGTON — “As we asked ourselves how we could have gotten the story wrong ...” Thus read a Rolling Stone editor’s note attached to a post-mortem st...

WASHINGTON — Whatever else the Obama administration accomplished in the Iran nuclear framework, it did a good job keeping the bar of expectations low ...

WASHINGTON — What began as a trickle has become a stream that could become a cleansing torrent. Criticisms of the overcriminalization of American life...

WASHINGTON — In March of 2013, Rand Paul occupied the Senate floor for a 13-hour filibuster, promising to “speak until I can no longer speak” in the c...

WASHINGTON — For a variety of reasons, I gave up alcohol Jan. 4. I have your attention, don’t I? This is because people who enjoy drinking are always ...

WASHINGTON — If President Obama had his way, Congress would simply keep its pesky nose out of the Iran nuclear deal. Given his critics’ behavior, it’s...

WASHINGTON — There are three essential questions to ask elected officials — and those running for office — in the usefully messy aftermath of the figh...

WASHINGTON — The apocalypse has been much on my mind. This is not only because Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now more or less officially in charge of a nu...

WASHINGTON — After the horrors of the Iraq War, some former Bush administration officials pursued healing activities. Donald Rumsfeld set up a foundat...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A growing number of states have updated their election laws to make the hub of the democratic process more convenient and voter-frie...

WASHINGTON — There are three essential questions to ask elected officials — and those running for office — in the usefully messy aftermath of the figh...

WASHINGTON — Visiting a struggling pitcher on the mound, Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver advised, “If you know how to cheat, start now.” Be advi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The framework nuclear deal sealed by world powers and Iran leaves major questions: Could Iran cheat? Possibly. Would the U.S or anyo...

WASHINGTON — The John Boehner/Nancy Pelosi agreement on Medicare doctors’ payments — permanently easing up on scheduled cuts, funded (partially) by me...

WASHINGTON — If you looked in my Washington Post personnel file, you would find an ancient evaluation that describes me as having “sharp elbows.” More...

WASHINGTON —Excited protests against Indiana’s recently passed religious freedom law have highlighted both America’s growing support for same-sex marr...

Gov. Tom Wolf has proposed a budget with a spending rate clocking in at a blistering $1,000 per second. That means in the time it takes you to read th...

WASHINGTON — The apparently intentional downing of a Germanwings airliner by the co-pilot has us riveted, as commercial plane crashes usually do. In e...