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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 ...

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...

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 — Imagine the horror of learning you have a terminal illness for which science has not yet come up with a treatment. Now imagine receiving ...

President Trump’s recent announcement that the upcoming summit with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is cancelled has been seized upon by lefti...

WASHINGTON — President Trump's critics were apoplectic last week when the president referred to MS-13 gang members as "animals." Of course, no one sho...

WASHINGTON — North Korea's recent temper tantrum over U.S.-South Korean military exercises and its threat to pull out of its upcoming summit with Pres...

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

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced April 25 that he had sent a “cease and desist” letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, threatening to...

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

For many, national politics today seems bizarre. Indeed, viewed historically we are living through an abnormal moment, a chronically controversial pre...

There have been a lot of questions about why Trump fired James Comey, ever since he announced to NBC's Lester Holt — incomprehensibly — that it was hi...

The Trump cabinet is receiving a lot of attention lately-most of it bad. The details vary, but much of the unwelcome spotlight focuses on the quality ...

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

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

WASHINGTON — President Trump's decision last year to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base was intended to send the Assad regime a m...

With all the tender concern President Trump and Nancy Pelosi have been heaping on "Dreamers" of late, you'd think the media would notice and pepper us...

WASHINGTON -- Brace yourselves, readers. I write today in defense of Kevin Williamson, with whom I could not disagree more. Williamson, if you haven't...

I can't wait to see Trump's next move in his game of "3-D chess"! You see, it only looks like Trump is The Worst Negotiator God Ever Created. Instead ...