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The Supreme Court goes to the playground

When it comes to playgrounds and religion, the government needs to play fair...  Read more

Eight Senate Republicans still dissatisfied with House bill — enough to sink it

The national spotlight is trained on House Republicans' furious efforts to pass a healthcare bill this week, but the measure faces an even more difficult path in the Senate, where just three GOP senators could sink it...  Read more

Here's what we know about the Russia investigation

The first hearing by the House Oversight Committee investigating Russia's interference with the 2016 elections lasted about six hours on Monday...  Read more

Russia Will Try Meddling with U.S. Elections Again, Comey Says

Russia waged a conspicuous campaign to undermine the American political process and will continue attempting to do so in coming years, top intelligence and law enforcement officials told lawmakers Monday...  Read more

Seoul Survivors

The South Korean capital shrugs off the North's belligerence...  Read more

Senate Democrats prep for aggressive attacks on Neil Gorsuch

Lawmakers will target Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as an enemy of the "little guy."...  Read more

Complicit in what?

Only when Ivanka Trump is supporting her father does "loyalty" become something quite close to criminal action...  Read more

Rex Tillerson's Asian reminder of why transparency is crucial

To the degree possible, the people should know what their government is doing...  Read more

Shooting drones out of the sky

Legislation in Oklahoma would allow the destruction of a drone flying over someone's private property...  Read more

The Story Behind Arguably the Greatest Recording Ever Made

One of the greatest pianists who ever lived, Dinu Lipatti, was born 100 years ago yesterday, on March 19, 1917...  Read more

5 drug policy positions held by Trump's FDA pick, Dr. Scott Gottlieb

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, President Trump's pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration, would take over the agency at a high-stakes time when drug costs are a top concern to the public...  Read more

Confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court

In many ways, Judge Gorsuch will be the intellectual heir to the late Justice Antonin Scalia...  Read more

The considerable legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia

As the Senate holds hearings this week to confirm Antonin Scalia's successor, it is important to reflect on his legacy...  Read more

Can This Relationship Survive?

For decades, a favorite pastime of the Washington press corps has been to find "daylight" between the president and the vice president—a difference of opinion, a dislike, a secret irritation. But not any more...  Read more

Obamacare and the Perils of Narrow Majorities

As the Republican alternative to Obamacare winds its tortuous way through Congress, the parallels with the big mistake President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats made eight years ago are unmistakable...  Read more

Where in the world is Sonny Perdue?

Two months after his nomination, a confirmation hearing hasn't even been announced...  Read more

Trump, Merkel may have 'different' bilateral relationship

When President Trump welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Washington on Friday, he will begin a new and potentially chillier relationship between the long-serving German leader and the third U.S. president to occupy the White House during her tenure...  Read more

Trump's budget puts Washington in its place

The White House's budget gets the federal government to focus only on what it can do better than anyone else...  Read more