Trump Fans the Flames of a Racial Fire  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump woke up on Sunday morning, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it.  It was not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last.

Republicans are quiet as Trump urges minority congresswomen to leave the country  —  A day has passed without prominent Republicans stepping forward to disagree with President Trump's notion that four minority congresswomen who have been critical of his approach to immigration enforcement should …

Trump moves to end asylum protections for Central Americans  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump weighs ousting Commerce chief Wilbur Ross after census defeat  —  Some White House officials expect the Cabinet secretary, who has known the president for years, to depart as soon as this summer.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has told aides and allies that he is considering …

Biden unveils health care plan: Affordable Care Act 2.0  —  Democratic front-runner Joe Biden today will unveil a health plan that's intended to preserve the most popular parts of Obamacare — from Medicaid expansion to protections for patients with pre-existing conditions …

LATEST PODCASTS  —  Congressman Andy Harris joins me this morning to discuss the ICE raids targeting nearly 2,000 undocumented immigrants ordered to be removed from the country.  We get his take on the raids and discuss President Trump's tweets targeting four members from the democratic side of the aisle.

Rose and Eliza  —  I was recently given documents showing that both Amy and I are descended from people who owned slaves.  Along with other possessions listed in their property log were two human beings, Rose and Eliza.  —  A paternal great-great-great grandfather of mine, Andrew Cowan Jasper, owned these two women in the 1850s.

An Epidemic of Disbelief  —  Robert Spada walked into the decrepit warehouse in Detroit and surveyed the chaos: Thousands of cardboard boxes and large plastic bags were piled haphazardly throughout the cavernous space.  The air inside was hot and musty.  Spada, an assistant prosecutor …

Huge Turnout Is Expected in 2020.  So Which Party Would Benefit?  —  Democrats typically gain from a broader electorate in presidential races, but that pattern is not assured in the Trump era.  —  The 2020 presidential election is poised to have the highest turnout in a century …

The Border Patrol Hits a Breaking Point  —  Vice President Pence's Friday visit to a Border Patrol detention facility in Texas didn't go according to plan.  Meant to pressure Democrats to address the migrant crisis at the southern border, the visit instead appeared to horrify those who accompanied Pence …

The Post says: de Blasio must be removed as mayor  —  The lights went out on Broadway Saturday night, and Bill de Blasio was a thousand miles away in Iowa.  It was the moment that perfectly captured his distracted, ego-driven failure of a mayoralty.  —  Bill de Blasio does not care about New York City.

‘His own fiefdom’: Mulvaney builds ‘an empire for the right wing’ as Trump's chief of staff  —  Mick Mulvaney's battles with Alexander Acosta began almost immediately.  —  Weeks after he was named acting White House chief of staff, Mulvaney summoned the labor secretary for a tense January encounter …

“You Crossed the Rubicon...There's No Going Back”: Karl Rove, Kellyanne Conway, and the Odd Couple Marriage Between Mike Pence and Donald Trump  —  He didn't like Rove (Trump: “I'll win New York”; Rove: “No, you won't").  Conway had worked for “Lyin' Ted Cruz.”  And Pence was a choirboy, albeit a hyper-ambitious one.

New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed  —  Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing will feature on the new design of the Bank of England's £50 note.  —  He is celebrated for his code-cracking work that proved vital to the Allies in World War Two.

Former Gov. Scott Walker to take the helm of conservative group, says he won't run for office in 2022  —  Former Gov. Scott Walker has accepted a full-time position running a national conservative youth organization based in northern Virginia.  —  Walker said the move rules out a run …

Trump Is Undoing Jimmy Carter's Greatest Accomplishment  —  President Jimmy Carter's diversification of the judiciary is one of the most important and least acknowledged achievements in presidential history.  And it's in danger.  —  In December 1976, one month before beginning his single term as president …

The Jolt: Son of Joe Lieberman contemplates a run for U.S. Senate in Georgia  —  So far, the dominant themes of the Democratic side of the 2020 U.S. Senate contest in Georgia has been its slow formation and leftward drift, even as Republican incumbent David Perdue rakes in boatloads of campaign cash.

Kavanaugh Fight Was No ‘Win’  —  The left savaged a man's reputation and America's institutions—and paid no price for its indecency.  —  When the Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh 50-48, it was a victory over American politics' most vicious smear campaign in decades.  Or was it?

U.K. Leader Says Trump's Tweets on Democrats Are ‘Completely Unacceptable’  — Spokesman briefs reporters on U.K. prime minister's views  — President criticized over tweets about four female lawmakers  —  U.S. President Donald Trump used “completely unacceptable” …

‘Never again means close the camps’: Jews protest ICE across the country  —  A growing group of young Jews formed Never Again Action to protest the mistreatment of migrants in ICE detention.  —  Serena Adlerstein didn't expect her Facebook status to turn into a nationwide movement but somehow …