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For their communities, the number of shootings is causing overwhelming fear.
Donald Trump’s refusal to acknowledge Joe Biden’s 2020 victory should disqualify him from the future support of any American. But the one-sided...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not happy with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and it wants you to know it. On Tuesday, the Chamber...
A former White House aide delivered a vivid testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee hearing. We illustrated it.
Brittney Griner, the WNBA superstar, has been detained by the Russian government since Feb. 17. On Friday, a trial began in a Moscow suburb on the...
Unquestionably, the end of the Supreme Court’s most recent term was one of the most epic in its history: the Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade...
Now begins the era of stare indecisis. Respect for precedent — known by the Latin stare decisis, “to stand by things decided” — had been a...
“Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views.” The Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson...
Progressives are howling that the Supreme Court’s conservative turn this term heralds a decline in the court’s “legitimacy.” As if. Nothing...
The women’s Bible group leader leaned close to me. She lowered her voice. “You know, abortion was intended to be a form of genocide against...
Questions raised in this column on the eve of the June 21 D.C. Democratic primary — “Is Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) in trouble?” and “Is D.C....
Rick Reilly, a former Sports Illustrated and ESPN contributor, is the author of “ So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game .” I don’t know if...
Many voters right now are separating their views of President Biden from their voting intentions — that is, they are willing to back a Democratic...
My first trip to a supermarket after the Buffalo shooting was the first time with a guide dog that I’d felt a dark dread in a public space.
Whatever else happens in President Biden’s tenure, and no matter how long that tenure lasts, the events this week in Europe will ensure that his...
Bob Casey, a Democrat, represents Pennsylvania in the Senate. I’m a U.S. senator who has done something rare in today’s politics: I’ve changed...
Kendall Cotton is president and CEO of the Frontier Institute in Helena, Mont., and member of the State Policy Network. Fifty years ago, my...
With its ruling last week to retract federal abortion rights, the Supreme Court essentially declared it won’t protect Americans from a powerful...
Almost as soon as it became clear the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, a number of the United States’ largest corporations began to...
This week’s NATO summit in Madrid shows that the transatlantic alliance remains a powerful force for good. It also shows how much further most...
Commanders owner Daniel Snyder declined two invitations to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which is investigating the...
With many employees either working from home or lacking paid sick leave, taking time to recover is harder than ever.
If Donald Trump is ever criminally charged for his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election, the central issue will be his state...
The Supreme Court ended its term Thursday with another controversial ruling — not because the court had to, but because the conservative majority...
Another day, another utterly catastrophic ruling from the activist hard-right majority on the Supreme Court. This new decision does even wider...
The House select committee on Jan. 6 has failed to dampen support among Republican voters for Donald Trump. Fifty-three percent of Republicans say...
At this week’s NATO summit, President Biden met for the first time in a year with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, setting aside his long-standing...
Theater owners and studios alike must be heartened by the success of “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Elvis,” two movies that have attracted huge...
The Supreme Court announced this term’s most momentous decision on the term’s last day. Thursday’s 6-to-3 ruling, although it lacked the...
Even before the Supreme Court took the unpopular step of overturning the right to abortion, its approval rating had fallen to a historic low.
These days, homelessness is considered far less in relation to the suffering of those living on the streets and more as a “quality of life” issue....
The overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the underwhelming reaction from senior Democratic leaders to that huge defeat, make the case even clearer that...
Inflation is hurting every American’s household budget. Because of poor investment choices by the federal government, it is likely to hurt the...
Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s Republican governor since January, happened to be visiting The Post on Friday when the Supreme Court overruled Roe v....
The ghastly circumstances surrounding the deaths of more than 50 migrants, mostly Mexicans and Central Americans, who perished while locked in an...
In the very early days of the pandemic, a Stanford University professor and health policy expert, Scott Atlas, wrote to a high-level government...
Western leaders have been gathering in Europe this week for the Group of Seven meeting and the NATO summit, with Ukraine at the top of the agenda....
Before the reality of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade made my blood boil, Justice Clarence Thomas had turned my...
Tuesday’s Republican primaries confirmed two trends we’ve been seeing throughout this campaign season: GOP voters are not buying Donald...
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Tuesday that watching the mob move toward the Capitol after Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal”...
Brussels — NATO solidarity was on display at a summit meeting this week in Madrid. One after another, officials pledged to stay the course and...
A conspiracy theorist might wonder if Ron Johnson has been hitting the ivermectin too hard. To be sure, there is zero factual basis for speculating...
Liberals and conservatives disagree bitterly about the results of last week’s Supreme Court cases on guns and abortion, but beneath that...
O. Carter Snead is director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame and author of...
San Francisco is poised to recall its progressive district attorney. Criminal justice reform could be on the line.
In 1892, a Massachusetts policeman challenged in court a law forbidding police officers to be political activists. The justice, who had the battle...
Democracy itself is on the ballot this election year. The country needs a broad coalition to defeat candidates who would help former president...
Joseph G. Allen is an associate professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health....
“As horrible as what happened [was], it could have been worse. The reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they...
In this conversation recorded June 20 for Washington Post Live, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.), who is also a reverend, discusses his new memoir...
A conservative Supreme Court majority is redefining the constitutional order — dismissive of Americans’ privacy rights, committed to dangerous...
Donald Trump may be upset with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s decision to pull Republican appointments from the House Jan. 6 select...
During Elena Kagan’s 2009 confirmation hearings for the office of solicitor general, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) asked her point-blank: “Do you...
Russia delivered a characteristically brutal message as the leaders of North America, Europe and Japan gathered for their annual Group of Seven...
At this political moment, when we hardly have time to process one outrage before the next washes over us, it seems as if the best escape might be...
I would be more sympathetic to Susan Collins’s claims that she was “misled” by Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh if the Republican...
Republicans could be taking a victory lap right now. They’ve managed to achieve major policy victories — on guns, religion in schools and...
On June 25, 1973, former White House counsel John Dean shocked the country with his testimony to a Senate committee revealing President Richard M....
Just about any poll you look at these days suggests that former president Donald Trump would be a viable contender — and possibly even a slight...
Before Tuesday, few outside of Trump World had ever heard of Cassidy Hutchinson. But few who witnessed the young woman’s extraordinary two hours...
An out-of-control president lunging for the wheel of his limousine to have it take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6, insisting that he did not care...
The Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade, a nearly 50-year-old precedent guaranteeing abortion protections for women. In a concurring...
This is a difficult moment for Roe v. Wade to have fallen. A complicated debate about life and death — involving science, law and moral philosophy...