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Why Trump won't fire Sessions

Congressional Democrats will keep demanding Attorney General Jeff Sessions' scalp, but President Trump is unlikely to give it to them anytime soon...  Read more

Graham: Special Prosecutor Needed if Evidence of Russia-Trump Team Ties Emerges

A special prosecutor must be appointed if incriminating evidence emerges about alleged contacts between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, a top Republican senator said Wednesday...  Read more

Brunching on Millennial Stereotypes

Millennials—why am I always reading about them? Why should I care? And why do they always seem to be eating brunch?  Read more

GOP wants newly focused Trump to discipline the caucus

The president has been largely absent from the legislative process...  Read more

Jason Chaffetz calls on Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from Russia probes

"AG Sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself," Chaffetz tweeted Thursday morning...  Read more

Sessions: 'I will recuse myself' from investigations when appropriate

"I have not met with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign. And those remarks are unbelievable to me and are false," he said...  Read more

Trump Makes a Hero, Navy Seal William 'Ryan' Owens, A Household Name

A lot can be said about President Trump's speech Tuesday night, in terms of content and rhetoric. There's certainly much to be said about policy—Will Trump endorsing tax credits have an effect on Congress's Obamacare plans?...  Read more

Common Core Has Disappeared from Trump's Remarks

What happened to Common Core—that is, abolishing it? President Trump's promise to get rid of the controversial program of standards for elementary and secondary schools is gone from his speeches...  Read more

Teenagers in the Trump era

How might the Trump election be reshaping the next generation?...  Read more

Trump's best day as president

President Trump has surprised everyone again and again; when he ran for the White House, when he won the Republican primary and when he won the White House, to name only the three most obvious occasions...  Read more

Trump looks and sounds like a president, to his political benefit

President Trump over the course of one hour on Tuesday delivered a remarkably well-crafted, conventional speech to a joint session of Congress that could reset the political contours of his young presidency and boost support for his agenda...  Read more

New VA Secretary Proposes Lifting Restrictions on Veterans Seeking Private Care

On Sunday, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin told the Disabled American Veterans conference in Arlington, Virginia that he was thinking about lifting restrictions on veterans who wish to receive private medical care...  Read more

Can Factory Jobs Be Made in America Again?

For nearly 20 years, Michael Philbeck drove forklifts and fixed machines at a factory here that makes materials for car tires...  Read more

Trump: A 'revved up' economy is going to pay for more military spending

President Trump anticipates money for his increased spending on the military and other campaign promises to come from a "revved up" economy he says is already beginning to roar under his watch...  Read more

Conservative-leaning veterans group launches direct-mail campaign for Gorsuch

The mailers from the conservative-leaning veterans advocacy group will land in several predominantly red states...  Read more

Budget cuts need to include entitlements

The swamp is as swampy as it is thanks to $3.5 trillion in federal spending that washes through Washington every year. Draining it requires that vast amount of money be reduced...  Read more

Rodin at the Met

Auguste Rodin— almost the last great figure sculptor—shares a rare distinction with history's two greatest visual artists, Leonardo and Michelangelo...  Read more

North Korea Is Definitely a State Sponsor of Terrorism

Since 2009, each edition of the State Department's annual Country Reports on Terrorism has contained a cheerful fiction...  Read more