Meet the Teacher Whose Powerful, Christian Defense of Obamacare Made a GOP Town Hall Go Viral  —  Jessi Bohon was more than a bit tired when I called her Friday.  The 35-year-old high-school French teacher who lives in Cookeville, Tennessee, didn't expect her first real moment of political activism to go national.

Congressman: Rarely used law could make Trump tax returns public  —  A New Jersey congressman says a rarely invoked 1924 law could be used to examine President Donald Trump's tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and Constitutional violations.  —  Rep. Bill Pascrell …

When it comes to his contacts with Russia, Michael Flynn has bigger problems than the Logan Act  —  Michael Flynn's real problem isn't the Logan Act, an obscure and probably unenforceable 1799 statute that bars private meddling in foreign policy disputes.  It's whether President Trump's …

Gary Cohn Has Emerged as an Economic-Policy Powerhouse in Trump Administration  —  Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive and commodities trader, is emerging as President Donald Trump's most powerful economic policy maker during the early days of the administration, capitalizing on a vacuum created while other top posts sit vacant.

A Family Thing: Don't Mess With Political Dads and Daughters  —  After Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump's fashion line, President Donald Trump quickly tweeted his disapproval.  A day later, the president was the target of venom from Meghan McCain, angry over Trump's criticism of her father, Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Georgetown Prof Defends Islamic Slavery  —  An academic reader writes: … What's he talking about?  News that Jonathan Brown, a tenured Georgetown professor and holder of the Al-Waleed bin Talal Chair in Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University, has delivered a lecture defending slavery and non-consensual sex.

After ICE arrests, fear spreads among undocumented immigrants  —  (CNN)Across the United States, some unauthorized immigrants are keeping their children home from school.  Others have suspended after-school visits to the public library.  They have given up coffee shop trips and weekend restaurant dinners with family.

Chaffetz says town hall crowd tried ‘bullying and intimidation’  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Jason Chaffetz said the raucous reception he received at Thursday evening's town hall meeting was “bullying and an attempt at intimidation” from a crowd opposed to President Donald Trump's election.

State G.O.P. Leaders Move Swiftly as Party Bickers in Congress  —  When Republicans in Kentucky seized total control of the state government last year, Damon Thayer, the majority leader in the State Senate, began asking around for advice from counterparts in other capitals where the party already dominated …

Trump Says Refugees Are Flooding U.S. in Misleading Allusion  —  JUPITER, Fla. — President Trump said on Saturday that judicial decisions that halted his executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries had allowed a flood of refugees to pour into the country.

Justice Department Begins Rollback Of Transgender Students' Bathroom Rights  —  Fears among the LGBTQ community are already being realized.  —  The Trump administration appears to be moving backward on transgender rights and defying the Obama administration that was looking to expand them.

Get My Racist Ancestor's Name Off of Yale's Campus  —  NEW HAVEN — Being black, I have a difficult relationship with my home state of South Carolina and its slaveholding history, epitomized by John C. Calhoun.  Schools, churches and towns throughout the state are named for this 19th-century politician …

'It's the breaking of a taboo': the parents who regret having children  —  Why some mothers (and fathers) feel they made a mistake  —  t was coming up to Christmas 2015 when a query popped up on Victoria Elder's home computer screen.  It was from the question-and-answer site Quora, to which she had only recently subscribed.

Stephen Miller Is a ‘True Believer’ Behind Core Trump Policies  —  WASHINGTON — Staff members on Capitol Hill recall Stephen Miller, the 31-year-old White House adviser behind many of President Trump's most contentious executive orders, as the guy from Jeff Sessions's office who made their inboxes cry for mercy.

‘A Sense of Dread’ for Civil Servants Shaken by Trump Transition  —  WASHINGTON — Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump's arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.

These Pathetic Tweets Are Just How Our Government Works Now  —  Do you ever feel like President Trump isn't listening to you?  Well, even sitting Republican Senators now feel the same way.  But they've found a solution.  Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa now just starts his tweets with …

Trump's two-year presidency  —  Good news: In two years, we'll have a new president.  Bad news: If we make it that long.  —  My “good” prediction is based on the Law of the Pendulum.  Enough Americans, including most independent voters, will be so ready to shed Donald Trump and his little shop …

Illegal Voting Gets Texas Woman 8 Years in Prison, and Certain Deportation  —  Despite repeated statements by Republican political leaders that American elections are rife with illegal voting, credible reports of fraud have been hard to find and convictions rarer still.

Somebody get me out of here  —  The federal courts of appeals routinely operate in randomly assigned panels of three judges.  Appeals from their decisions may be taken to the United States Supreme Court and are heard mostly as a matter of the Supreme Court's discretion.