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Thu., Sept. 20, 2018, 5 a.m.
Dana Milbank: The midterms are all about Trump
President Trump is getting his wish: It’s all about him.
Mon., Sept. 17, 2018, 7:24 p.m.
Trump declassifies documents related to FBI Russia probe
President Donald Trump on Monday declassified a trove of documents related to the early days of the FBI’s Russia investigation, including a portion of a secret surveillance warrant application and …
Mon., Sept. 17, 2018
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Woodward sets off alarm for America
On Tuesday, Bob Woodward finally came through.
Sun., Sept. 16, 2018
Marc A. Thiessen: Democrats like to talk about Trump breaking norms. Now Obama is.
Democrats like to talk about all the hallowed presidential norms that Donald Trump is breaking. But now it is Barack Obama who is breaking presidential norms with his self-serving foray …
Sat., Sept. 15, 2018
Trudy Rubin: Mideast peace ‘deal of century’ eludes Trump, 25 years after Oslo Accords
Twenty-five years ago this week I stood on the White House lawn and watched the famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, as President …
Sat., Sept. 15, 2018
Rich Lowry: The blue-collar recovery
The economic recovery is really beginning to reach into Trump country.
UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 14, 2018, 11:24 a.m.
Paul Manafort pleads guilty, will cooperate with special counsel
Paul Manafort signaled Friday that he intends to plead guilty ahead of a second trial as prosecutors filed new charging documents against the former Trump campaign chairman.
Wed., Sept. 12, 2018, 6 a.m.
Max Boot: Protest is as American as football. Why doesn’t Trump get it?
The tang of fall is nearly in the air. The summer is all but over. Football season is here. Are you ready for some … culture war? This …
UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 11, 2018, 6:25 p.m.
Bob Woodward book goes on sale as ex-Trump aides push back
A new White House tell-all from journalist Bob Woodward, the election season’s most-talked-about political book, officially went on sale Tuesday as several former aides of President Donald Trump sought to …
Mon., Sept. 10, 2018, 8:20 p.m.
U.S. marks 9/11 anniversary; Trump to mark it at Pa. memorial
Americans are commemorating 9/11 with somber tributes, volunteer projects and a new monument to victims.
Sun., Sept. 9, 2018
Michael Gerson: We are a superpower run by a simpleton
If you prick Donald Trump, does he not explode? If you stroke him, does he not purr?
Sat., Sept. 8, 2018
Nikki Haley: When I challenge the president, I do it directly
The author of the anonymous “resistance” op-ed published this week in the New York Times might think he or she is doing a service to the country. I strongly disagree.
UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 6, 2018, 8:46 p.m.
At Montana rally, Trump lauds Kavanaugh progress, decries ‘meanness’
President Donald Trump on Thursday praised Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s progress toward winning confirmation to the Supreme Court but decried the “anger and the meanness on the other side,” blasting Democrats’ …
Thu., Sept. 6, 2018, 6 a.m.
Paul Waldman: Donald Trump’s war on workers far from over
What is the state of the American worker, and what is the Trump administration doing for them? Or rather, what is the administration doing to them?
Sat., Sept. 1, 2018
Marc A. Thiessen: Impeachment is just a liberal fantasy
Even if Democrats win back both the House and Senate, there is zero chance a two-thirds majority of senators will convict President Trump for paying off an adult-film star.
Fri., Aug. 31, 2018
Dana Milbank: Donald Trump, constitutional scholar
President Donald Trump’s interpretation of what’s legal and what isn’t puts the rest of us to shame.
Thu., Aug. 30, 2018, 5:28 p.m.
Trump to sign executive order on retirement security Friday
President Donald Trump is signing an executive order Friday to make it easier for small businesses to group together to provide their workers with retirement plans.
UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 29, 2018, 5:38 p.m.
Jared Bernstein: No, Trump doesn’t determine the fate of the stock market
President Donald Trump, on Aug. 22: “I’ll tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash.” Pretty much every market analyst who was asked about …
UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 27, 2018, 6:48 p.m.
Gov. Jay Inslee orders flags lowered to honor Sen. John McCain
State government offices were ordered to lower their flags to half-staff Monday and leave them there through the weekend to honor Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican who died Saturday.
UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 26, 2018, 5:58 p.m.
Dershowitz says New York probe, not Mueller, is ‘greatest threat’ to Trump
President Donald Trump should be more worried about prosecutors in New York than about the ongoing Russia probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller III, retired Harvard Law School professor …
UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 27, 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Kellyanne Conway keeps focus on Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Eastern Washington in Spokane stump speech
In a stump speech for the longtime Republican congresswoman, Kellyanne Conway kept her comments local and said that the GOP had a clear advantage in the district, just as it …
UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 23, 2018, 10:48 p.m.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers faces smaller, friendlier town hall crowd in downtown Spokane
A year removed from one of the most raucous town halls in her recent congressional career, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers faced a relatively calm – and sparse – gathering Thursday …
Mon., Aug. 20, 2018, 1:31 p.m.
Trump to celebrate ‘heroes’ of ICE as political debate over federal agency intensifies ahead of midterms
President Donald Trump on Monday will offer public praise of federal immigration officers and tout them as “heroes” at a White House event aimed at drawing a sharp contrast with …
Mon., Aug. 20, 2018, 7:33 a.m.
Trump assails Mueller following Times report
President Donald Trump pressed his criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday, accusing Mueller’s team of “enjoying ruining people’s lives” and “looking to impact the election.”
UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 19, 2018, 9:12 p.m.
Trump says his White House counsel not a ‘RAT’ like Nixon’s
President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that his White House counsel isn’t a “RAT” like the Watergate-era White House attorney who turned on Richard Nixon, and he blasted the ongoing Russia …
Fri., Aug. 17, 2018, 7:20 a.m.
Trump blames DC officials for postponing his planned military parade
President Donald Trump on Friday blamed local officials for his decision to postpone a grand military parade in Washington this fall.
Thu., Aug. 16, 2018, 9:56 p.m.
Trump’s veterans parade delayed until at least 2019
The Defense Department says the Veterans Day military parade ordered up by President Donald Trump won’t happen in 2018.
UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 16, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
‘Apprentice’ alum Penn Jillette says tapes of Trump saying ‘racially insensitive things’ do exist
Magician Penn Jillette believes “The Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett has tapes of Donald Trump saying damaging things during the president’s time judging the NBC reality competition.
Thu., Aug. 16, 2018
Editorial: The Spokesman-Review isn’t ‘the enemy of the people’
No American president, or any city council member, for that matter, has ever unreservedly delighted in the way he or she was presented in the press. “I so appreciate the …
UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 13, 2018, 10 p.m.
Ad watch: Abortion rights group targets Cathy McMorris Rodgers on family separation policy
The ad charges that Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers hasn’t stood up to the Trump administration on the divisive “zero tolerance” policy that has led to children being separated from their …