THE BIG IDEA: The devil is always in the details. After years of waiting on Republicans to outline how they will translate talking points into reality, two House committees last night posted the specific language of legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable...
Every week seems to bring yet another revelation about possible relationships between Russia and people close to Donald Trump. Combine that with the fact that this is the height of tax preparation season, and you can see why lots of people seem obsessed with finding a...
Speaking in Virginia this week, FBI Director James B. Comey pointed to a classic anti-drug strategy to fight the current heroin epidemic: “Our job is to try to crack down on the supply, literally, to be very blunt, to drive up the price to make it less and less...
SAN FRANCISCO — As news about President Trump’s temporary ban on immigrants and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries filtered through Silicon Valley on Saturday, tech leaders from firms such as Apple and Tesla began condemning the move. But in anguished phone...
NEW YORK — Few companies have benefited more from the record-breaking surge in stock prices since the election of President Trump than Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs. The big bank’s’ stock price is up nearly 30 percent since early November, helping boost the...
Mary Beth Waits took one look at my Oct. 12 column and said to herself, “That’s Aunt Mary!” My story that day was about J. Charles Jones, the Howard University-trained lawyer and civil rights activist who in June 1966 led a four-day march around the Capital Beltway to...
On a muggy autumn morning four decades ago, a car exploded in Washington. It had motored along Massachusetts Avenue NW, rounding the bend at Sheridan Circle, when a remote-controlled bomb taped beneath the vehicle was triggered. A driver in a car nearby would later...
Beverly Smith strives to stay busy. If she’s not at a rally against police brutality, she’s traveling through neighborhoods in Southeast Washington, preaching against violence by officers. One week, she joined mothers on the lawn of the National Rifle Association to...
To hear the presidential candidates tell it, the future for African Americans and Latinos will be great. More jobs. Better schools. Affordable housing. Fewer inmates. Less killing. More equality. But hardly anyone ever asks how they intend to make it happen....
NEW YORK—U.S. regulators proposed new rules on Thursday to overhaul the way Wall Street executives are paid, addressing years of complaints that excessive bonuses helped lead to the 2008 financial crisis. The long-awaited rules are aimed at stopping executives from...
The photo from Life magazine hangs on the wall of state Sen. Jamie B. Raskin’s Annapolis office. It shows his liberal-activist parents cooling their feet in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, listening to Martin Luther King Jr. at the August 1963 March on...
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the United States is spending “billions” of dollars defending other countries, notably Japan and South Korea. “We pay billions, hundreds of billions of dollars, to support other countries that are, in...
Yet the report, which was authored by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government, also revealed another stunning figure. When you add up the 10 largest retirement funds held by white male CEOs, the total came to $1.4 billion. Doing the...
But rest assured, there is one group that has no such worries — America’s top executives. In fact, they enjoy lavish pensions that would otherwise support millions of ordinary workers, according to a new report released this week by the Center for Effective Government...
It was a tale of two galas Tuesday night, of causes and consequences: At the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts celebrated artists and media-makers for telling immigrant stories and making Latinos visible in the culture. Just a...
