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Art Cullen is editor of the Storm Lake Times in Northwest Iowa. He is author of the book “Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Hope in America’s...
I believe in truth, democracy and the rule of law. I believe in a lot of other things as well, but after the past four years, these seem most...
At Wednesday’s inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden is likely to address the “four historic crises” he has repeatedly identified as...
PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN won Wisconsin last November by a mere 20,000 votes, out of more than 3.2 million cast. Like most states, Wisconsin has a...
On Wednesday, the nation will have a president who would never summon thousands of his followers to Washington, whip them into a frenzy with lies...
The challenge — and the opportunity — for Joe Biden is that he succeeds the worst president in U.S. history. Donald Trump’s tenure was...
President Trump will leave office Wednesday as the undisputed head of the Republican Party despite the events of the past two weeks. Most pundits...
WHEN HE takes office, President-elect Joe Biden will inherit a ragged and stumbling vaccine rollout. Mr. Biden understands the gravity of this...
AFTER THE Trump administration, in May 2018, unveiled its “zero tolerance” policy, under which migrant families would be separated at the border,...
THE LONG-RUNNING federal court oversight of D.C.’s child welfare system is likely coming to an end after a judge last summer gave preliminary...
WELL, WE made it. Some 1,461 days after Donald Trump took office as president, he must leave it, having been defeated for reelection last Nov. 3...
As Ulysses S. Grant prepared to take the presidential oath of office in March 1869, his predecessor, the impeached President Andrew Johnson,...
Outside a Capitol ringed by 25,000 troops to guard against more violence by Trump supporters, President Biden will deliver an inaugural address at...
Washington Post columnists Gary Abernathy, Karen Attiah, David Byler, E.J. Dionne Jr., James Downie, Ruth Marcus, Dana Milbank, Henry Olsen,...
Jackie Speier, a Democrat, is a U.S. representative from California and chair of the House Armed Services military personnel subcommittee. I will...
Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2019. He is...
The house atop the hill at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., is the home of the vice president of the United States. When President-elect...
Fragile is not a word we normally associate with America. But fragile is where we are as we wake up on Inauguration Day. Fragile like an egg: our...
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR Putin of Russia put on a show of arbitrary power this weekend in the airport seizure of Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader...
Four years ago, Donald Trump’s demonstrably false crowd count — and the weirdest speech in Inauguration Day history — foreshadowed the acres of...
In a San Francisco hotel suite on Aug. 2, 1923, the first lady was reading a favorable magazine article aloud to President Warren G. Harding when...
It is customary for the outgoing president to leave a note for his successor, apologizing for the mess he has left behind and failing to include...
After the 2016 election, violent protests erupted across the country and the cry went up on the left: Donald Trump is “not my president.” So, I...
A new beginning is not a chance to wipe the slate clean. That would leave us impervious to learning. A new beginning is appropriately a time for...
When domestic terrorists fueled by outlandish conspiracy theories spun by a white supremacist president of the United States stormed the U.S....
Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus at Harvard and has advised members of Congress on matters of impeachment....
Tammy Joyner is an Atlanta-based journalist. CLAYTON COUNTY, GA. — The congratulatory social media posts and texts continue to pour in from family...
Michael Dobbs covered the collapse of communism for The Post. His latest book, “ King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy ,” will...
It is hard to overstate the enormity of what occurred on Jan. 6, 2021 — a date that will live in infamy alongside Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11,...
On Friday evening, after this op-ed was published, Twitter permanently banned President Trump’s Twitter account . *** Graham Lampa is director of...
Monday is the day America celebrates the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s fitting, therefore, to use the occasion to think about race...
In retrospect, it has become clear that what set the course for Donald Trump’s presidency was not the bleak “American carnage” rhetoric of...
President Trump will be gone soon, if not soon enough. His worst legacy is the ugly, racially tinged divisiveness that he stoked for four years,...
Four years ago, Donald Trump stood on the Capitol steps and painted a grim portrait of an America fading in influence and prosperity, its cities...
Emotions still surge in the aftermath of a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol by President Trump’s supporters, and the subsequent deployment of troops...
Since Donald Trump has stopped being president in anything but name, President-elect Joe Biden decided to assume the role six days early. In...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will remain majority leader until noon on Jan. 20, with the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. At that moment,...
Joe Biden’s national security team has been getting plenty of advice about Trump policies that it should immediately jettison on Wednesday or...
“We invited every single Republican senator to join us this morning,” CNN’s Jake Tapper told “State of the Union” viewers Sunday morning....
“Y’all know who to hire for your realtor. Jenna Ryan for your realtor!” — according to court filings , real estate agent Jenna Ryan moments...
When Democrats took back the House of Representatives in 2018, a number of the freshman representatives quickly emerged as media stars. One was...
It has been four years since Republican elites sanctimoniously derided the liberal “coastal elites,” the “libtards” in pink hats, the media...
Susan M. Gordon was the principal deputy director of national intelligence from 2017 to 2019. Every former president in the modern era has...
Memory is a merciless editor. From the first Roman emperor, Augustus, to the fall of the empire nearly five centuries later, some 70 individuals...
What is most important: speed or equity? As I listened to President-elect Joe Biden lay out how he will expedite vaccine rollout, I was struck by...
Cristina Beltrán is an associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of “ Cruelty...
Republicans remain angry about fanciful allegations of voter fraud in the last election. Rather than continue to push the unsubstantiated and often...
Christopher Buckley’s latest book is “Make Russia Great Again.” The Presidential Medal of Freedom has personal resonance for me. As a White...
Everyone knows the feeling of loss when a deeply held belief is proven false: Santa Claus, the stork and, yes, systemic voter fraud. The false...