Charles Fried, a legal scholar and ethicist who explored questions of morality and law but also engaged in self-examination of his own views, including backing constitutional abortion rights decades after he argued against them as solicitor general during the Reagan era, died Jan. 23 at 88. The death was announced by Harvard University, where Dr. […]Read More

The Pentagon has abruptly abandoned plans to trainalongside the militaries of several countries either involved in the overthrow of democratic governments or accused of human rights violations, reversing course amid recentscrutiny. The plans, disclosed to Congress in October and reviewed by The Washington Post, detailed the Pentagon’s intent to hold joint exercises this year with […]Read More

James Little successfully argued that his punishment for joining the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol was illegal. His reward: 60 more days behind bars. In a scathing statement from the bench, Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Thursday that he was worried about “further danger to our country” because of Little and others’ “shameless attempts […]Read More

It’s hard to imagine the president’s in-house health clinic as a rogue operation, but that’s the picture a Pentagon probe paints about the facility during the Trump administration. The findings are clear and damaging. “We found that the White House Medical Unit provided a wide range of health care and pharmaceutical services to ineligible White […]Read More

Peter Navarro, a White House aide to then-President Donald Trump who claimed credit for devising a plan to overturn the 2020 election, was sentenced to four months in prison Thursday morning for ignoring a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. “Dr. Navarro, you are not a victim. You are […]Read More

At the moment, no issue in American politics is more fraught than immigration. A surge in people hoping to enter the United States to seek political asylum in recent years has strained local, state and federal resources. Beyond those strains, the increase also supercharged political commentary — particularly on the right, given that immigration is […]Read More

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nikki Haley returned to the campaign trail in her home state and swiftly unfurled an arsenal of attacks against Donald Trump. She accused him of throwing a “temper tantrum” in his victory speech, attacked his acuity and reprised her challenge to debate him. “Bring it, Donald, show me what you got,” […]Read More

On the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump often criticized President Barack Obama and Washington more broadly by invoking a very large number: the scale of the federal debt. “We’ve doubled our national debt to $20 trillion under President Obama,” he said during an October 2016 speech in Pennsylvania. “In less than eight years, $10 […]Read More

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nikki Haley returned to the campaign trail in her home state and swiftly unfurled an arsenal of attacks against Donald Trump. She accused him of throwing a “temper tantrum” in his victory speech, attacked his acuity and reprised her challenge to debate him. “Bring it, Donald, show me what you got,” […]Read More