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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

Congress must protect 'soft' terrorist targets

Our public spaces face an unacceptable terrorist threat...  Read more

EMP threat needs to be taken seriously

EMP non-expert Gregory Kiley recently slandered former CIA Director James Woolsey and myself in a Washington Examiner op-ed...  Read more

Trump is dismantling Obama's workplace law legacy

Trump administration has reversed course on changes Obama made to overtime, business liability, contracting and worker exposure to harmful materials...  Read more

Senate debates keeping key Obamacare insurer requirement

Republicans are discussing whether to allow states to opt out of community rating, which forbids insurers from charging sick people more for coverage...  Read more

Why Donald Trump could be interviewed in Russia probe

President Trump would join former presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan on the list of commanders in chief interviewed under oath while in office...  Read more

Comey v. Trump

It's not hard to understand why Donald Trump was frustrated with FBI director James Comey...  Read more

How a robust infrastructure plan can reboot the Trump agenda

If the president wants to revivify his agenda for American renewal, he must oust congressional GOP budget hawks and Democratic naysayers from the driver's seat and retake the political initiative...  Read more