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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, foreground, had hoped to win the speakership once John Boehner, rear, vacated Congress. But McCarthy's Clinton-Benghazi blunder put that in serious doubt and inflicted considerable damage on his Republican Party more broadly.

The New McCarthyism

May 11, 2019 at 2:38 a.m.

The lede to this column is a deep, guttural groan that originates in the throat and expands into the lungs before collapsing in the pit of the stomach. How do...

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, squeezes behind outgoing House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio at the start of a news conference on Capitol Hill on Sept. 29, 2015. McCarthy is likely to be Boehner's successor.

GOP’s ‘brat pack’ could use a dose of sanity

May 11, 2019 at 2:38 a.m.

The Republican Party's "Freedom Caucus," which has several less-charitable nicknames on Capitol Hill, is the dog that caught the car. Now what? Having (sort of) unseated Speaker John Boehner, these...

Pope Francis addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015.

A divine visit, a heavenly message

May 11, 2019 at 2:37 a.m.

"Oh, so you drank the Kool-Aid," my neighbor superciliously sneered from the stoop he occupies each afternoon to sip wine and critique people's parking skills on our beloved Olive Street....

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal showed no quarter in calling out fellow GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, something he perhaps had the luxury to do because he's trailing so badly in the polls.

Let’s consider the cretins and squirrel heads

May 11, 2019 at 2:35 a.m.

Some in the media were quick to dismiss Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's speech attacking Donald Trump as the opportunistic rant of a 1 percenter. That is, as a presidential candidate...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on the campaign trail Aug. 29, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn., answers questions at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies.

GOP: Take off the gloves and go after Donald Trump

May 11, 2019 at 2:33 a.m.

The Trump riddle continues to compel: How has he managed to successfully execute such a mass deception? He's by no definition a conservative, and yet he continues to plow ahead...

Donald Trump speaks with the baiduhai Editorial Board on June 29, 2015.

Don-Don and the Trumpettes

June 16, 2018 at 4:14 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The Donald Trump riddle continues to compel: How has he managed to successfully execute such a mass deception? He's by no definition a conservative, and yet he continues...

The meaning of Trump

June 15, 2018 at 11:12 a.m.

WASHINGTON — It is perhaps time to stop wondering what The Donald's got that the others ain't got. What he's got is conservative America's number, which has less to do...

Hillary Clinton vs. Carly Fiorina. That would be a race.

May 11, 2019 at 2:30 a.m.

Not to diminish the importance of the first Republican debate, but it felt like the first in a political survivor series. The question wasn't so much who won the prime-time...

An Alzheimer's patient is fitted with a medic alert bracelet. The Alzheimer's Association predicts that 16 million Americans will have the memory-robbing disease by 2050, up from 5.3 million today.

Action needed before we lose our minds

June 16, 2018 at 4:43 p.m.

Current quibbling over what Jeb Bush meant when he said it's time to phase out and replace Medicare — as opposed to "attacking the seniors," as one woman at a...

Before we lose our minds

May 11, 2019 at 2:28 a.m.

Current quibbling over what Jeb Bush meant when he said it's time to phase out and replace Medicare — as opposed to "attacking the seniors," as one woman at a...

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