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Wiretap: As if to show that anything can still happen, the...

The Senate budget bill is a surprise on many fronts. It ignored Donald Trump’s threat to oppose it. It’s for two years. It raises...

Littwin: We’re in yet another Trump storm, and what if it...

I’ve got bad news. I know. I write about Trump a lot. There’s always bad news. But this bad news could be worse. If the polls...

Wiretap: What to do in Trumpworld when you’re sick and tired...

Will Bunch explains in The Philadelphia Inquirer why the nationwide case of Trump Fatigue is so widespread and how that makes 2018 so dangerous....

Littwin: We apparently just missed out on a Saturday Night Massacre,...

Remember the government shutdown? It ended on, like, Monday. No? Don’t feel bad. Nobody does. It’s Friday as I write this, and a week in TrumpWorld...

Littwin: The shutdown was a political fiasco, but the real losers...

Let’s get the non-alternative facts out of the way first. The Democrats caved in a major way. They got nothing of significance in return...

What the battle over the Dream Act means for the West

For a short time, soccer seemed like it might be Daniela Benitez’s ticket to attending college. She didn’t begin playing soccer until the eighth...

Wiretap: The biggest shutdown questions are what Trump wants and whether...

It would probably be much easier to come to a compromise on the Dreamers and on the government shutdown if the president could say...

Wiretap: The secret is out on Trump’s “uninformed” border wall campaign...

In a meeting to discuss immigration policy with Democratic lawmakers, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly set the record straight on a few...

Wiretap: The GOP plan to avoid shutdown is simple — use...

The Republican plan for averting a government shutdown this Friday is to dare Democrats to vote against long-term funding of the Children’s Health Insurance...

Wiretap: Trump is all over the map on immigration while Dreamers...

As it becomes increasingly less clear what exactly the president is willing to sign in a bipartisan bill to address the plight of the...