
He is the most hated man in Washington, and he isn’t riveting record crowds like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are out on the... Read More
Ted Cruz’s surge to the top of the polls in Iowa, and into second place nationally, gave immediate relevance to something... Read More
In an impressive sprint at 2015’s end, employers added 292,000 workers to their payrolls in December, the government said on Friday,... Read More
Even in boom times, any president can expect candidates from the opposing party to subject his record to pitiless scrutiny. The economy under... Read More
In The Post's exhaustive look at the exhausting first year of the 2016 cycle, an unexpected person comes to Donald Trump's... Read More
Donald Trump might not make it to the general election against Hillary Clinton (she’s no lock either) but increasingly he’s... Read More
You don’t have to be a Marxist to believe that economics shapes politics. Shared prosperity yields hope and even a measure of... Read More
"People are pissed,” reports Esquire after examining the results of its new survey, conducted along with NBC News. The study finds that... Read More
They’re eating cats in Madaya. Starving people had been eating grass and leaves, according to news accounts, until the snows came and... Read More
As the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis metastasize, we need a new approach for these unfolding human tragedies. To date, the Obama... Read More
One day after the news broke that a crowd of about a thousand men of Middle Eastern and North African appearance had molested women in... Read More
What everyone’s waiting for is the winnowing. New Hampshire and Iowa will force some Republican candidates out. When we know... Read More
With less than a month until the Iowa caucuses, followed immediately by New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary, it's time the... Read More
Question: Why would Hillary Clinton send husband Bill out on the presidential campaign trail to help her with the women's vote? Answer:... Read More
Does Bill Clinton still have his political magic? How much of it can he transfer to his wife? The answers: Yes and not much.The former... Read More
Hillary Clinton is waging the most sexist campaign in the history of presidential contests by showing up, dumbing down, girling up, and... Read More
Americans are justified to be angry about the economic recovery. As President Obama enters his final year, good-paying jobs remain scarce and... Read More
The epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis. Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and... Read More
Are you opposed to "common sense" gun laws? These are what liberals like Hillary Clinton are always proclaiming their support for. In their... Read More
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois all face major problems with drug addiction and overdose deaths, and all have Republican senators seeking... Read More
The scandal surrounding Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s grossly corrupt and negligent handling of police violence in his city keeps... Read More
Continuing a tradition, here is a look back at my predictions for 2015—hits and misses—and fresh prognostications for the New... Read More
The Donald Trump train rolled right into Bernie Sanders' backyard Thursday night, as noisy and disruptive as ever. The... Read More
They keep coming,” the advertisement’s narrator intoned, while the screen showed footage of undocumented immigrants... Read More
In his last month in office and apparently no longer in thrall to party activists and special interests, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter... Read More
Some things about Paris never change.One November evening in the Place André Malraux, near the Louvre, I noticed a couple in their... Read More
If you’re going to engage in a foreign policy capitulation, might as well do it when everyone is getting tanked and otherwise occupied.... Read More
So, will China’s problems cause a global crisis? The good news is that the numbers, as I read them, don’t seem big enough. The... Read More
After months of planning and anticipation, rumor and rumination, President Obama finally issued his executive orders, together with a few... Read More
The House of Representatives is expected to give final approval Wednesday to a bill that would repeal much of the 2010 Affordable Care Act... Read More
Congress returns to work this week, and for once those words shouldn’t trigger a panic attack. As early as Wednesday the House will... Read More
FOR years Saudi Arabia seemed inert, relying on its vast oil wealth and the might of its American patron to buy quiet at home and impose... Read More

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The Donald Trump train rolled right into Bernie Sanders\' backyard Thursday night, as Read More

BOONE, Iowa — Bus tour? Call it the Ted Cruz road show. As he has barnstormed Iowa this week on a six-day jaunt, the Texas senator perhaps best known on Capitol Hill for his bombast has showcased another quality: his sense of humor. He has punctuated his stump speech with well-practiced one-liners even as he warns crowds that America is in “crisis.” “Has anyone else noticed Read More

Candidates, pundits pollsters and the public agree: 2015 upended political assumptions. Read More
