Former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate intelligence committee Thursday will receive breathless television coverage, unlike anything in recent years. Published June 7, 2017
By now you've seen the tasteless, shocking, gruesome and disgraceful image of third-rate comedienne Kathy Griffin holding a prop meant to be the bloody, severed head of President Trump. Published May 31, 2017
As President Trump wraps up his first foreign trip as commander-in-chief, one result to watch is whether this nine-day, five-nation swing whets his appetite for future foreign travel. Published May 24, 2017
President Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James B. Comey has set in motion a series of events that present the most serious threat to his presidency yet. We can all speculate where we would be had Mr. Trump not decided to dismiss the FBI director, but the simple fact is that the White House has lost the ability to control where this story goes from here. Published May 17, 2017
The news that President Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday created a firestorm in Washington. Perhaps it shouldn't have. Published May 10, 2017
On Tuesday, while being interviewed by Christiane Amanpour at a "Women for Women" event in New York, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton cast specific, targeted and direct blame at everyone, but herself, for her shocking election loss in November. Published May 3, 2017
Like most minority parties that lose the White House, the Democratic Party is without a national leader. Their legislative caucuses in the House and Senate have elected leadership, but the party itself has several elected officials fighting to lead it into the future, all with an eye toward 2020. And the party's most visible figures aren't exactly fresh faces. Published April 26, 2017
We are not even 100 days into the Trump presidency, and already journalists and political pundits are desperately looking for clues as to how the midterm elections will turn out 19 months from now. Let's all take a deep breath. Published April 19, 2017
When President Trump was presented with his first foreign policy crisis last week, forced to determine the U.S. response to a heinous chemical attack unquestionably perpetrated by Syrian president and war criminal Bashar Assad, the world looked to the new U.S. president. Published April 12, 2017
In just 24 hours this week, President Trump found himself facing a pair of worrying foreign crises with no easy options in sight. Published April 5, 2017
The first two-and-a-half months of Donald Trump's presidency have been anything but boring. Published March 29, 2017
While President Trump's Supreme Court nominee held up superbly under long days of confirmation hearings questioning, and the administration and the House GOP leadership furiously worked to assemble votes for the Obamacare replacement bill, the scene at Monday's House Intelligence Committee hearing verged on the truly incredible. Published March 22, 2017
I have seen no major Democratic legislation filed this Congress to "fix" Obamacare. Nothing to address rising costs, or the declining quality of coverage, or the increasing lack of choice in the market. Published March 15, 2017
Republicans have unified control in Washington. This opportunity may last only two years, but if they get their act together, it can last far beyond that on Capitol Hill. Merging new staff with a loyal campaign team is always difficult -- especially given the stress of working in the West Wing. Published March 8, 2017
After a roller-coaster ride during his first six weeks in office, President Trump faced a choice: Take another victory lap with a narrow speech tailored to his base, or try something radically different. Mr. Trump took the road less traveled, and the benefit from his decision will be significant. Published March 1, 2017
When Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, the former head of Southern Command and a widely-recognized expert on our southern border, released two new memos Tuesday directing his department to enforce the law and hire more people, you would think he was shredding the Constitution. Published February 22, 2017
It's been a rough few days for the new administration. Team Trump is on defense, and they seem content to stay there. Published February 15, 2017
With 48 senators, just three shy of a majority, exactly what have Democrats accomplished in the first 30 days of the Trump presidency? I just performed a rough calculation and here's what I get: Absolutely nothing. Published February 8, 2017
By any measure, President Trump hit a grand slam with his Supreme Court nomination. Published February 1, 2017
I am not going to pretend that the first week of the Trump presidency has not been a little bumpy. Published January 25, 2017
