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Trump Admin Reviewing Obama's Last Minute Funds to Palestinian Authority

The Trump administration is reviewing the release of millions of dollars for Palestinian projects made by the Obama administration in a last-minute transfer that flouted congressional objections...  Read more

Trump Attacks Manning for Criticizing Obama

President Donald Trump went after Chelsea Manning via Twitter Thursday morning calling the convicted leaker "ungrateful" for penning an op/ed critical of President Barack Obama...  Read more

A better model for healthcare in America

If we want to lower the cost of health insurance, we have to lower the cost of healthcare...  Read more

Trump Orders a Wall and Punishment for Sanctuary Cities, But How Will It All Happen?

The border wall begins! Well, sort of. On Wednesday, President Trump signed two executive orders to deliver on one of his most famous and consistent campaign promises...  Read more

Beyond the wall on immigration

President Trump has been criticized for adopting his "America first" campaign slogan because of its fraught historical implications...  Read more

Trump takes control of GOP agenda

At a White House meeting this week, President Donald Trump told House Speaker Paul Ryan he "liked" the Republicans' 200 day agenda that includes repealing and replacing Obamacare and overhauling the tax code...  Read more

Bannon Strengthens His White House Foothold With More Friendly Hires

In the early days of the Trump presidency, the president and his administration seem to be traveling down two separate, parallel paths...  Read more

Lessons from a Lovefest

You can learn a lot from one largely overlooked confirmation hearing...  Read more

A Tea Party for progressives? Left steals an idea from the Right

A group of former Democratic congressional staffers wants to stop President Trump and thinks emulating the Tea Party is the way to do so...  Read more

Evan McMullin to launch conservative group opposing Trump

Evan McMullin and his running mate Mindy Finn are launching Wednesday a new conservative group opposed to President Trump...  Read more

USPS should support, not impede, American small business growth

Today's USPS isn't focused on letter mail delivery, but more interested in services beyond their core mission...  Read more

An Unpersuasive Post-Mortem

It's easy to understand why Barack Obama's supporters are so sad to see him leave the White House...  Read more

What Tom Price Didn't Do Is the Emerging Attack Against Him

Untangling the HHS secretary nominee's stock controversy...  Read more

Trump's First 100 Days: A 'Normal' First Working Day

The weather Monday in Washington was windy, rainy, and messy—but those were hardly the conditions inside the West Wing on what the Trump administration was calling its first "working day."...  Read more

Press seeks 'new rules' in the age of Trump

The news media are re-considering the rules of journalism under the Trump administration, after a weekend of "alternative facts" and a debate over crowd size at President Trump's inauguration...  Read more

Time for trade talks with Britain

Hours after scrapping the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Trump White House explained that the president supports "free and fair trade."...  Read more

Remembering Gene Cernan

For a lot of obvious reasons, the U.S. is filled with space enthusiasts...  Read more

Trump nominates Heather Wilson for Air Force secretary

President Trump on Monday tapped former New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson to serve as secretary of the Air Force. After two unsuccessful Senate bids...  Read more