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Trump's expected reversal on Cuba is a victory for freedom

With no change in human rights in Cuba, American dollars will be spent funding authoritarian repression and a regime that has historically supported insurrectionism across Latin America...  Read more

The Real Story Behind the Diplomatic Crisis With Qatar

It’s not the principled stand against support for terror that it seems to be...  Read more

Lawmakers weigh security boost after baseball practice shooting

House Speaker Paul Ryan led a bipartisan meeting Wednesday about enhancing congressional protection, but nothing has been decided yet...  Read more

Be civil, but don't blame incivility for attempted murder

Rep. Chris Collins' mistake in attributing the shooting to heated rhetoric is tempting amid virulent opposition to the president and similar statements from Democrats, but it divorces the culprits from personal responsibility...  Read more

Megyn Kelly falls out of favor with the mainstream

Megyn Kelly is less than one month into her new role at NBC News, and much of the glowing national media coverage that she enjoyed as a star at Fox News has suddenly dimmed...  Read more

Sessions Discusses Comey, Russia, Trump in Senate Hearing

Senators grilled the attorney general, who appeared evasive on certain issues...  Read more

Trump to renominate Obama pick for FCC after axing her nomination

Jessica Rosenworcel served as a member of the FCC from 2012 until 2017...  Read more

Trump tries to lead on Obamacare

President Trump's reported call to make healthcare reform efforts more generous could alienate some of the conservatives he would need to get a bill through the Senate after narrowly succeeding in the House...  Read more

Republican healthcare reforms tiptoe timidly toward disaster

President Trump told a group of Republican senators their bill was "mean" and needed to be more generous, but both he and Senate Republicans are on the wrong course toward changing Obamacare...  Read more

The many missions of Jeff Sessions

All Attorney General Jeff Sessions has to do to in his dramatic Tuesday testimony before the Senate is tell the truth...  Read more

Rules of Disorder

The president leads himself astray...  Read more

Trump looms large as Virginia governor's race takes shape

Ed Gillespie on Tuesday was readying to pivot from the Republican primary to the inhospitable terrain of a general election dominated by President Trump's low approval ratings...  Read more

In selling Trump's budget, Mattis faces a skeptical audience on Capitol Hill

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is tasked with defending a military plan that falls far short of the vision President Trump once sold...  Read more

Republicans, bring your healthcare bill out for inspection

Transparency produces support. Opacity alienates people...  Read more

Republicans getting restless for legislative victories

Even without the distraction of Trump tweets and hearings over the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the GOP has internal differences that have stopped it from advancing healthcare and tax reform...  Read more

State of the City

There's no place quite like Singapore. But for how long?...  Read more

Democrats look to California for single-payer healthcare

The California state Senate passed the single-payer bill on June 1 by a vote of 23 to 14 with three members not present...  Read more

Can Trump reshape NAFTA?

President Trump hates the North American Free Trade Agreement. But that's where the certainty ends...  Read more