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Consider the consequences of #BelieveAllWomen: It won't turn out well for women. Read More
For a Republican to lose the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions one year after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Alabama by 28 points,... Read More
Alabama's surprising result gives Democrats a plausible path to take control. Read More
Sixty-three percent of polled voters believe that the FBI has been resisting providing information to Congress on the Clinton and Trump... Read More
Protesters call for an intifada and promise to shoot the Jews. Read More
Very soon, President Trump will have to decide whether America should remain a bystander to Iranian expansionism. Read More
Trump has learned from history that focusing on the growth deficit, not the budget deficit, leads to economic prosperity, says Stephen Moore Read More
Congress and President Trump put politics ahead of smart reform. Read More
American conservatives are engaged in a generational struggle for the future. In the political press, with its preference for trivialization... Read More
It’s an article of faith among many Democrats that Republicans have somehow escaped the electoral consequences for the increasing... Read More
The Democrats are feeling ruff, tuff and ready for the coming battle, and why shouldn’t they? They proved in Alabama that with a little... Read More
Public opinion can take off like a runaway train once it gets going. President Donald Trump, already polling lower than any of his... Read More
Dems Seeing Blue Wave: Democrats are absolutely giddy in the wake of Doug Jones’ surprise upset of Roy Moore in... Read More
The only picture of collusion emerging from the Russian probes is one that implicates Hillary’s. Across the U.S. government, political... Read More
The general reaction to Rod Rosenstein's testimony yesterday was that he did a decent, even patient job explaining to feral... Read More
Chain, chain, chain, chain of... Read More
This cannot be the end of a free and open Internet. Activists must fight on in the courts, in Congress, and in the streets. Read More
Throttle the internet! Read More
Democrats credited turnout and engagement from diverse coalitions for statewide election wins this year, but chief among these reasons... Read More
Could the next Roy Moore be awaiting Republicans in Arizona or Nevada? Read More
The announcement came on Saturday. Just three days before the Alabama special election that transfixed the nation, and on the same day that... Read More
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Sulzbergers at one of the nation’s last—and certainly most... Read More
Covering the Trump presidency has not always been the media's finest hour, but even grading on that curve, the month of December has brought... Read More
The Department of Justice and the FBI are developing a credibility problem ... Read More
If Americans could freely pick and choose among broadband internet service providers, the threat of... Read More
Net neutrality zealots are predicting the end of the internet as we know it after the FCC rescinded Obama era net neutrality regulations.... Read More
The women of Alabama sent an unmistakable message about how much was too much. Read More
Roy Moore, the Republican defeated Tuesday in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama, turned out to be a deeply flawed candidate and one who... Read More
Republican Roy Moore was the most important reason that Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s U.S. Senate election on Tuesday. Moore was... Read More
As Alabama goes, so goes ... ah ... just Alabama?It's inviting to posit the notion of sweeping impact to Doug Jones's Senate victory in... Read More
A defeat in Alabama should inspire a course correction in the White House â but it won't. Read More
Rep. Mo Brooks was the true Trumpian candidate in Alabama, which is why I endorsed him in the primary (here, here and here).... Read More
Doug Jones: Little-known inside Alabama and utterly unknown outside the state, the Democratic candidate finally found his voice in the waning... Read More
If Trump were truly a Read More
A suspicious reading of the message would be about some scenario in which Trump would lose the election without anyone in the room doing... Read More
The Democratic Party has taken a very clear stand on sexual misconduct, setting its sights on President Trump. Read More
How do people from different walks of life, diverse experiences, and varied points of view live together peacefully within a civil society?... Read More
Republican Roy Moore's defeat in Alabama Tuesday signaled the power of sexual misconduct, even when only alleged, as an issue in U.S.... Read More
A Treasury report on tax cuts that's a sick joke, but very much in the modern G.O.P. tradition. Read More
I am not part of the middle class — I grew up poor before achieving “The American Dream” by co-founding The Home Depot... Read More
A year ago the Department of Justice was finishing up eight long years of a scandal-plagued term under Attorneys General Eric Holder and... Read More
A pattern is emerging in President Trump’s foreign policy: Time after time, he’s doing what he promised to do. Last week, Trump... Read More
I’ve been quite critical of Donald Trump, in part because of his sustained attacks on reality. But in the case of his decision... Read More
Imagine the NFL stripping Tom Brady and the Patriots of their Super Bowl XLIX rings over #DeflateGate — but without any evidence of a... Read More
Doug Jones’s defeat of Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate special election is yet the latest signal that the accommodators of Donald... Read More
In the interest of full disclosure: Since Nov. 30, my face has appeared on nearly a score of email fundraising appeals from Roy Moore... Read More
But in third and fourth place1 were two special elections to the U.S. Senate: Scott Brown’s January 2010 election in Massachusetts... Read More
He felt he was made for this moment.' But now, on the verge of achieving his long-sought legislative dream, he's got his eyes on the exits. Read More
The agreement in principle announced Wednesday by House and Senate Republican leaders on a tax cut bill â heralded by President... Read More
This is not a widely accepted point, granted. The share of Americans who say that their taxes are too high is at roughly 50 percent,... Read More
For today's social justice warriors, only one narrative shall be allowed. It is unquestionable. Those who dissent are guilty. Read More
The F.B.I. team had plowed through 50,000 Hillary Clinton e-mails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop in less... Read More
That this is a fair question to ask is itself troubling. Our justice system strives to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Sure, we pounce... Read More
Many believe Russia aims to be the ringmaster of the Syrian show, but currently Moscow is walking a tightrope tethered between opposing... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is trumpeting the rolling back of federal rules and regulations in his administration’s first year even as critics say he has tried to dismantle important protections for the environment, consumers and others, and that his claims are overblown.“For many decades, an ever-growing maze of regulations, rules, restrictions has cost our country Read More

Democrats credited turnout and engagement from diverse coalitions for statewide election wins this year, but chief among these reasons was the increased participation and a large shift in support from a demographic that bedeviled the party last year: millennials.Though Hillary Clinton won more young voters than President Trump, she underperformed with the group compared to President Obama’s Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Marco Rubio’s potential defection over a tax credit for low-income parents put a speed bump into GOP leaders’ drive to push their big tax package through the Senate, but it’s a complication that’s likely to be resolved.The Florida senator declared Thursday that he’ll vote against the $1.5 trillion bill unless House and Senate negotia Read More
