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Trump's Advisers Are Speaking Out, in Ways Both Harsh and Subtle

Cohn, Tillerson, and Mattis have made comments that distance them from the president...  Read more

Paul Ryan hits the road for tax reform as a solution to Trump 'anxiety'

For Ryan, tax reform is both a response to and a solution for the divisions and weekly controversies generated by the White House...  Read more

Trump dossier mystery deepens

On Wednesday, not long after I posted the story, "Republicans skeptical about origin of Trump dossier," I got a note from a friend who had been thinking about the claim that a wealthy GOP donor started the infamous Trump dossier...  Read more

Media fear Trump will inspire violence against reporters

Many in the national media are worried that President Trump's continued broadsides against the press will inspire violence against reporters, even as vocal opponents of the White House on the Left have encouraged assault or directly attacked some journalists...  Read more

Congressional Republicans should reform Medicare, regardless of what Trump says

The House Republican Budget trims mandatory spending by $203 billion over the next decade, a period when the federal government will spend more than $40 trillion...  Read more

Trump Picks a Fight With Congressional Republicans

The president is getting ready to blame the GOP for coming up short on the debt ceiling, the budget, and the legislative agenda...  Read more

PC Corporate Culture Is a Plague That Government Helps Spread

Too often companies like Google trample free expression out of fear of legal and civil backlash...  Read more

Shock Poll Shows Trump at Just 50 Percent with GOP Primary Voters

Why is Trump's pollster touting a poll showing Trump under 50 percent in Republican primary?...  Read more

Why Trump couldn't quit Afghanistan

President Trump was booed when he gave a long, angry speech in Phoenix; he was cheered when he vowed to continue a long, futile war in Afghanistan...  Read more

Trump gives Republicans whiplash swinging from conciliatory to confrontational rhetoric

President Trump bookended a free-wheeling rally on Tuesday evening — which featured attacks on the media and incumbent Republicans — with a pair of disciplined speeches both before and afterward that promoted unity...  Read more

Why Pakistan matters

Around 53 percent of Pakistan's nearly 200 million citizens are 24 years old or younger, and most are poor and angry...  Read more

Frustrated by governing, Trump returns to campaigning

President Trump returned to what works for him: campaigning. Governing is still very much a work in progress...  Read more

Trump goes to Yuma: Walls can work, but they can't work alone

Trump likes to say that "walls work," even though he has already proven that illegal immigration can be sharply curtailed without them...  Read more

Bipartisan group working to waive pay limit for Secret Service agents

The federal law enforcement agency has been forced to rapidly expend its resources due to a substantial increase in the number of White House family members under Trump's administration and the frequency of their travel...  Read more

Trump's Phoenix Speech, as Viewed Through Twitter

Social media reacts to the president's statements on Charlottesville, John Kelly, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and more...  Read more

Donald Trump Insults the Media, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and NAFTA at His Phoenix Rally

At his campaign-style rally in Phoenix Tuesday night, President Donald Trump reconfirmed one of the laws of his presidency...  Read more

Hillary Clinton supporters still moaning about media coverage nearly 10 months later

Team Clinton has also said that the national media gave excessive attention to the federal investigation into her email server, something they say that news organizations have not accounted for...  Read more

At Paul Ryan town hall, not a word on Russia

House Speaker Paul Ryan joined CNN's Jake Tapper for a nationally-televised town hall in Ryan's Wisconsin district Monday night...  Read more