I Testified Against Nixon.  Here's My Advice for Michael Cohen.  —  My appearance before Congress helped take down a president.  Will the same thing happen to Trump?  —  Mr. Dean was a White House counsel under Richard Nixon.  —  There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973 …

Bret Stephens Tried to Teach Me How the World Works Because I Called Him Remarkably Dumb  —  It is not unreasonable for people to get mad at rude emails from strangers.  Some people process them differently than others.  What prompted me to send one to New York Times columnist Bret Stephens …

Judge orders Roger Stone to explain imminent release of book that may violate gag order  —  Republican operative and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone faced fresh legal trouble Friday after a federal judge ordered his attorneys to explain why they failed to tell her before now about the imminent publication …

UPDATE |  W.Va. GOP responds to controversy over anti-Muslim display  —  West Virginia Republican Party Chairwoman Melody Potter is speaking out after a war of words broke out at the West Virginia Capitol Friday over a controversial poster that was displayed during a “Republicans Take the Rotunda” event.

How Jeff Bezos Went to Hollywood and Lost Control  —  Jeff Bezos amassed the world's greatest fortune by relying on what he has called a “regret minimization framework.”  He built an $800 billion company with 14 codified principles and a brutally exacting culture.  His annual salary of $81,840 has not budged since 1998.

No Place for ‘Soy Boys’ at ‘Tribute to Men’ Outside CPAC  —  One organizer, upset that the Boy Scouts now accept girls, dubbed them “the soy scouts.”  —  Some attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference took a break Friday to sing the praises of men.  All of them.

Trump claims his plea for Russia to hack Clinton's email was a ‘joke’  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday revisited his infamous 2016 appeal to Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails, arguing that he was just joking and criticizing the press for taking his comments seriously.

The Democrat Who Wants to Stop the Rage  —  POLK CITY, Iowa—Sitting under a framed ticket from an old Obama town hall meeting, down in the basement of a farmhouse surrounded by snowy fields of corn and soybeans, I tell Michael Bennet that an Iowa Democrat who'd come to hear him speak compared him to pea soup.

How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group — and became their new leader  —  Without notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy neo-Nazi group has signed over its control to a black civil rights activist from California.

Xavier Becerra doesn't rule out legal action against journalists over police conviction data  —  Berkeley-based journalists received the list from a state commission through routine public records requests  —  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday didn't rule out the possibility …

WikiLeaks Veteran: I ‘Cooperated’ With Feds ‘in Exchange for Immunity’  —  A grand jury probe that began nine years ago is ongoing.  And one of Julian Assange's old crew is now talking.  “I'm on the street... not in an embassy,” he tells The Daily Beast.  —  Chelsea Manning isn't alone.

Brussels awaits London move in Brexit talks  —  The Brexit talks remain locked solid, but Brussels expects London to make a move — potentially in the next week and with a new text laying out changes to the controversial Northern Ireland backstop.  —  For all the spin from U.K. ministers …

Editor's note related to Lincoln Memorial incident  —  A Washington Post article first posted online on Jan. 19 reported on a Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial.  Subsequent reporting, a student's statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred …

Centrist Democrats push back against party's liberal surge  —  From the halls of Congress to the presidential campaign trail, Democratic moderates are beginning to push back against the wave of liberal energy and shoot-the-moon policy ideas that have captured the party's imagination over the last two months.

Man Arrested In Attack On Conservative Activist At UC Berkeley  —  BERKELEY (CBS SF) — A man being sought for the assault of a conservative activist on the University of California, Berkeley campus last month has been arrested.  —  A statement from UC Berkeley Public Affairs said a warrant …

Nepotism rules exist for a reason.  Jared Kushner shows why.  —  The Post reports: … Kushner's lawyer, Ivanka Trump and President Trump all falsely stated that he got no special treatment.  —  As Trump defenders have pointed out, the president has the authority to grant clearances to anyone, so why is this even a problem?