Opinion
Pelosi knows how to play chicken; Trump doesn’t
There’s little question that the speaker knows how to negotiate — and how to fight.
Opinion
Taxpayers will be on the hook for millions of government work hours that no one actually worked
The U.S. Senate voted last week to grant back pay for furloughed federal workers.
Opinion
Congress ignored its election duties for years. That ends now
Dems will clearly seek to move on pent-up priorities. For their first act out of the gate, they…
Opinion
Jay Inslee’s climate change gambit
In what could be a crowded field of Democratic contenders for the office of president, Jay Inslee is…
Opinion
The Pompeo Doctrine isn’t so different from the Obama Doctrine
Ten years ago, President Barack Obama traveled to Cairo to open a new dialogue with the world’s Muslims.…
Opinion
Trump’s border wall fight is really a struggle for America’s identity
It’s a confrontation between two sharply different concepts of the United States: one more purist, one more melting…
Opinion
Male-only no more: The next House Speaker will be a woman
The Frank Chopp era will end soon. Everett’s Robinson is among a crowd of women who may seek…
Opinion
Enthusiasm for Elizabeth Warren shows Dems want a bold, authentic Trump challenger
The Massachusetts senator has much going for her that excites Democrats.
Opinion
‘Compromise’ wasn’t always a dirty word
We live in an age in which compromise is often interpreted as weakness and penalized at the next…
Opinion
As women take Congress, misogynists lash out
A crew of men in right-wing media and politics seems to believe they’ve tolerated this whole women-in-power exercise…
Opinion
Here’s a fix for big-time college sports
Football and basketball players in the top-ranked NCAA Division I programs are getting a bad shake.
Opinion
Federal flood insurance is a mess, and it’ll be expensive to fix
This year is the 50th anniversary of the National Flood Insurance Program, and this federally subsidized program has…
Opinion
House Republicans came back from being written off before; they can again
When it comes to the GOP’s 2018 loss of the House, perhaps a little historical perspective might be…