Charles Lane –

Want to be a pundit, Comey? Be careful what you wish for.

July 24, 2018 at 5:13 p.m.

It's abundantly clear the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation missed his calling. Instead of America's top detective, what James Comey really wanted to be was a political...

Commentary: Why less homeownership is good news

May 23, 2019 at 8:54 a.m.

You might have missed it amid the recent Campaign 2016 turbulence, but there's been a major development on the economic front. The U.S. homeownership rate has just fallen to its...

Obama’s toxic relationship with golf

May 11, 2019 at 1:47 a.m.

Nothing infuriates President Barack Obama's adversaries more than his golf outings, which have become so frequent that even his sympathizers have started to mutter about the unseemly symbolism of a...

Putin’s fantasies

December 23, 2018 at 4:59 p.m.

Intelligence officers live by a time-honored credo: When in doubt, admit nothing, deny everything, make counteraccusations. It was in that spirit that Vladimir Putin, the quondam KGB man who rules...

Heartbreak Hotel

July 3, 2026 at 2:16 a.m.

Only a few years after J. W. Stevens opened his grand Michigan Avenue hotel, the Depression devastated his family, inducing a series of calamities that included suicide, bankruptcy, and criminal...

Rice helped shape position on affirmative action

August 20, 2021 at 11:48 p.m.

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice took a rare central role in a domestic debate within the White House and helped persuade President Bush to publicly condemn race-conscious admissions policies at...

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