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Top immigration official says solar-paneled border wall 'not off the table'

The federal government is giving a first peek at construction of prototypes for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, an area that is walled off from public viewing in a remote area of San Diego...  Read more

If Thad Cochran resigns, another headache for the Republicans

If Cochran resigned after Nov. 6, the nonpartisan special would be held the same day as the 2018 midterm...  Read more

Obamacare deal hits the skids in Senate

A bipartisan deal to fund Obamacare payments stalled in the Senate Wednesday after President Trump derided the payments as "bailouts," but Republicans behind the package are trying to keep the deal alive...  Read more

Trump and Lindsey Graham: Washington's odd couple

After the 2016 election, President Trump and Sen. Lindsey Graham have begun to work together despite their major policy differences...  Read more

A good start at reforming the Veterans Administration

In the three and a half years since news broke of a major scandal at the Department of Veterans' Affairs, the public has heard a depressing story of dysfunction, pettiness, and malfeasance at the heart of the VA health system...  Read more

The Purge: Scott Yenor and the Witch Hunt at Boise State

A political science professor at Boise State writes a piece about transgenderism and the university tries to tie him the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville...  Read more

The Junk Science at the Heart of the Gerrymandering Case

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a case in which University of Wisconsin professor William Whitford and a group of plaintiffs (all Democratic voters in the state) contend that the drawing up of Wisconsin’s state legislative districts was an unconstitutional gerrymander...  Read more

Is There Now a Bipartisan Effort to SAVE Obamacare?

Instead of repealing and replacing, will President Trump join with Democrats to save Obamacare?...  Read more

Mitch McConnell warns Trump that Steve Bannon threatens their agenda

McConnell emphasized that Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist, was undermining the president's agenda...  Read more

Art of the free-trade deal doesn't require losers

The President wrongly sees international trade as a zero-sum game and appears dead set on America winning by defeating Mexico and Canada...  Read more

What's Lost As Scouting Goes Coed

Opportunities for single-sex socialization are dwindling, and that's a problem...  Read more

Honoring the Courage of Four-Legged Warriors

Dogs: 1, Radical Islamic Terrorism: 0...  Read more

The Bromance Begins for Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell

The Donald and Mitch—together again, for the very first time...  Read more

Defeating ISIS: The US is 'very near the goal line'

This month, Iraqi forces ousted Islamic State fighters from Hawija, the group's last remaining stronghold in Iraq...  Read more

Coastal conservatives battle Republican leadership on flood insurance reform

Weeks before a spate of hurricanes ravaged America's coastlines, a little-noticed fault line arose among congressional Republicans...  Read more

Rural America looks to Trump to help with crumbling infrastructure

Lawmakers and policy experts say the White House cannot forget rural America as it prepares to release the outlines of its infrastructure spending package...  Read more

Tillerson Refuses to Deny He Called Trump a 'Moron,' Again

The “failing” New York Times continues to be President Donald Trump’s favorite newspaper, even if he would never admit it...  Read more

Counting Putin's Victims

Yuri Dmitriev, on trial for the crime of cataloging Soviet murders...  Read more