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