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In the matter of Donald J. Trump, the criminal justice system failed egregiously to hold the once and future president accountable. It’s almost...
John G. Roberts Jr., in his year-end report on the federal judiciary, didn’t call out JD Vance by name. But the chief justice took an unmistakable...
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray shouldn’t have made it so easy for Donald Trump. When he becomes president in 40 days, Trump will have the...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. But not so desperate as having President Joe Biden issue preemptive pardons to government officials...
“For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth,” President Joe Biden said in his statement...
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of uber-loyalist Kash Patel to be FBI director is a hair-on-fire moment. Trump is poised to install a team of...
While a worried nation tries to make sense of Donald Trump’s spate of unqualified, extreme nominees, the president-elect is setting the stage for...
“There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle,” wrote Matt Gaetz, the former congressman and, as of 12:24 p.m., former...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, fresh from seeing the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago, has changed his hands-off views about the House Ethics Committee’s...
It took Donald Trump scarcely a week to demonstrate his utter contempt for the government he is about to lead, culminating in his choice of Matt...
Even before he takes office, President-elect Donald Trump is setting the stage for an unprecedented presidential power grab. In a social media post...
And so, it begins. Elon Musk, the X owner and shadow president-elect, posted about the special counsel who prosecuted Donald Trump, “Jack Smith’s...
No matter what happens in the next 24 hours, it will have been a historic presidential race. On the latest episode of “Impromptu,” Ruth Marcus,...
Donald Trump has threatened to “protect” women, “whether the women like it or not.” If this bullying paternalism doesn’t sit well with you,...
JACKSON, Wyo. — “There has never been a bear in history that has beaten the odds like 399,” her quasi-official photographer, Thomas D....
The Supreme Court, over the dissent of its three liberal justices, issued an unsigned order on Wednesday allowing Virginia to purge about 1,600...
“I don’t think anybody has ever seen anything like what happened the other night at Madison Square Garden,” Donald Trump said of his racist,...
I love The Washington Post, deep in my bones. Last month marked my 40th year of proud work for the institution, in the newsroom and in the Opinions...
“COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE,” Donald Trump complained of special counsel Jack Smith’s lengthy filing in the 2020 election...
The traditional wish for Rosh Hashanah, the new year that Jews celebrated last week, is for a sweet new year. The traditional wish for Yom Kippur,...
Donald Trump has always had an odd — and, frankly, offensive — way of talking to and about Jews. As much as he seeks to inoculate himself from any...
Enough. “My kids keep me humble,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders preened, thereby disproving her own claim. “Unfortunately, Kamala...
It’s impossible, unproductive and, frankly, tedious to respond to every Trump outrage. So I try to pick my shots and spare readers what would...