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Michael Barone: Marco Rubio — more than just the good cop

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech, delivered on Valentine's Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, "Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President JD Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress." In February 2025, the audience at ...

Josh Hammer: Will we see a Supreme Court vacancy (or two) this summer?

Few things in Washington, D.C., generate as much as excitement and intrigue as a Supreme Court confirmation showdown. For decades, since the eponymous "borking" of then-Supreme Court nominee Bob Bork in 1987, political battles surrounding the membership of the nation's high court have been ...

Tim Graham: Jim Crow smears allowed by Democrat-aligned ‘fact-checkers’

The people who call themselves the "mainstream media" have a remarkable tendency to take the minority position on an 80-20 issue, most recently on requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. House Republicans have passed the SAVE Act, while Democrats have almost unanimously opposed ...