By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post To the exclusion of any executive competence or managerial skills, voters have come to choose presidents as if they were ideological leader in chief or vision bearer in chief. That’s a mistake, because the job of president is actually executing the laws and running the executive branch. It’s about […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s detractors are trying to play down the significance of the U.S.-Mexico immigration deal, saying it is largely comprised of actions that Mexico had already agreed to many months ago. Nice try. If Mexico had truly agreed to implement many of these measures in December, then why had they not been implemented […]

By Ed Rogers Special To The Washington Post President Donald Trump said the wrong thing again Wednesday, and of course some in the media — and practically all the Democratic presidential candidates — are spun up about it. Specifically, he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he might listen to a foreign government offering opposition research […]

There are many addictions besides drugs, sex and power. There is also our increasing addiction to debt. According to Money Magazine, reporting on figures from the New York Fed, “Americans’ debt hit a new high of $13 trillion last year, surpassing the previous record set in 2008 by $280 billion.” On a personal level, individual […]