The Media Needs To Stop Rationalizing President Trump's Behavior  —  Whenever President Trump lashes out against someone or something in a way that defies traditional expectations for presidential behavior — for instance, his decision to criticize the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico …

No, Trump Didn't Botch the Puerto Rico Crisis  —  A Q&A with former Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix on smart preparations the White House and Pentagon made for the looming storm.  —  “Send in the cavalry.”  —  That was the advice retired Army General Russel Honore gave President Donald Trump …

Column Time's up: As CHIP expires unrenewed, Congress blows a chance to save healthcare for 9 million children  —  Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price voted twice against expanding CHIP as a George state legislator.  —  Advocates for children's health started worrying months ago …

At Trial, a Focus on the Facts, Not the Politics, of Benghazi  —  WASHINGTON — Almost from the moment that Islamist militants overran the American consulate and assaulted a C.I.A. annex in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012, politics consumed the deadly attacks.

Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner  —  Hugh Hefner, gone to his reward at the age of 91, was a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain's hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying manse where porn blared during his pathetic orgies.

Could America's Socialists Become the Tea Party of the Left?  —  If America's democratic socialists learned anything from watching Bernie Sanders' deep run in the Democratic primary last year, it's that they don't have to be losers any more.  —  Inspired by the Vermont senator's success …

‘The New Washington’: Though Out of Power, Democrats Are Winning the Fight, Pelosi Says  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Nancy Pelosi might have retired from Congress had Hillary Clinton been elected, content that she was leaving the government in capable female hands.