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Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama stand onstage as their official portraits are unveiled at a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Washington D.C.

Obama portraits test our feelings about Obama era

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

Well, what did you think? What sounded to me like The Gasp Heard ’Round the World followed the grand, televised unveiling of the official portraits of former President Barack Obama...

Kellyanne Conway sits with First Lady Melania Trump as they meet with personnel at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, in Cincinnati. President Donald Trump has chosenWhite House counselor Kellyanne Conway to be his "opioid czar."

Team Trump’s chaotic war on drugs

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

Fentanyl is hazardous even to an arresting officer’s health. Officer Chris Green in East Liverpool, Ohio, found out last summer. The Drug Enforcement Administration warned police nationwide that fentanyl, the...

Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to then-President-elect Donald Trump, speaks at a news conference at the RIA Novosti news agency in Moscow on Dec. 12, 2016.

Who is Carter Page? Fortunately, not me

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

I had not yet poured my first cup of coffee Sunday morning. Suddenly I was jerked alert by the sound of a C-SPAN radio discussion of whether I, “Clarence Page,”...

President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 30, 2018.

Democrats, beware Trump Derangement Syndrome

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

Back in 2003, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer coined the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome” to describe people who had gone off the rails with their hatred of President George W. Bush....

President Donald Trump has labored like strongman autocrats the world around to trash the institutions that are designed to provide checks on a president's ability to abuse his or, someday, her powers.

Beware the paranoid style of Trump’s politics

May 31, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

My fellow Americans, the state of our Union is … (drumroll, please) paranoid. The complex of mysteries known as “the Russia investigation” has become tangled up in conspiracy theories voiced...

President Donald Trump stands with Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. in Lynchburg, Va., on May 13, 2017.

Why evangelicals made a deal with the devilish Donald Trump

May 31, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

As president, Donald Trump has been the answer to conservative evangelical leaders’ prayers. But the partnership comes with a price. Prominent evangelicals have been called hypocrites for sticking with Trump...

Immigration advocates hold a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 23, 2018.

Democrats caved on immigration, leaving progressives furious

May 31, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

If every picture tells a story, the obviously staged photo released by the White House during the weekendlong shutdown of the federal government spoke volumes about Donald Trump’s presidency. The...

As much as President Donald Trump attacks the "fake," "lying" or "corrupt" news media, he also signals to reporters that, as in the Corleone family in "The Godfather" books and movies, it's just business; don't take it personally.

Trump’s ‘fake news’ awards win the prize for flops

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

By the time he got around to presenting his long-promised “2017 Fake New Awards,” even President Donald Trump seemed to be losing interest in the event. After tweeting a link...

President Donald Trump speaks as, from left, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Vice President Mike Pence and Isaac Newton Farris Jr. look on during an event about Martin Luther King Jr. at the White House on Jan. 12, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Sorry, Mr. President, your black approval rating has not doubled

May 31, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

As much as he complains about the “lying media,” President Donald Trump obviously wants to be one of us. With his trusty Twitter account, he can bypass “the lyin’ media,”...

President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press statement with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Is Trump a racist or does he just say racist things?

May 31, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

Donald Trump saying something racist “isn’t exactly news anymore,” observed Michael Che, of “Saturday Night Live.” Yet Trump’s former wife, Ivana Trump, offers these kind words of support for her...

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