President Donald Trump has the White House running on “fast forward.” He is pushing the once crusty and creaky foreign policy apparatus to move at the speed of Twitter.
Debra J. Saunders
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Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he is withdrawing the United States from the international nuclear accord with Iran, a move he signaled repeatedly on the campaign trial.
Don Blankenship is on probation after spending a year in prison for mine safety violations that contributed to the deaths of 29 West Virginia coal miners in 2010. Nonetheless, the coal baron has a shot at winning that state’s GOP primary Tuesday — even though he’s told probation officials that Las Vegas is his home.
The U.S. Senate faces a clear choice as it prepares to confirm — or reject — Acting CIA Director Gina Haspel as the permanent head spook.
In his second address to the gun rights group’s annual convention, the president vows to “protect your Second Amendment” before bashing special counsel Robert Mueller, thanking Kanye West and poking fun at John Kerry.
A former Nevada bank robber and the FBI agent who arrested him 14 years ago met Thursday at the White House Rose Garden for the National Day of Prayer.
My Uber driver to the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night was an Iranian journalist jailed for four years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and sentenced to 60 lashes.
When he ran for president, candidate Donald Trump promised to hire “the best people” and said he would look at potential Cabinet members’ “track record, great confidence, love of what they’re doing, how they get along with people, references.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel came to the White House for a working lunch with President DonaldTrump. After the pomp and spectacle showered on French President Emmanuel Macron earlier in the week, Friday’s meeting seemed more like homework than a celebration of shared values and bonhomie.
In a dramatic turn of events that showed the Trump White House retains a firm grip on Senate Republicans, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in favor of CIA Chief Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state.
An odd thing is happening in President Donald Trump’s America. Over time, his rivals turn into their own versions of The Donald. No greater example exists than James Comey, the FBI chief whom Trump fired last year.
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas has been keeping track of White House staff turnover since the late 1990s, but until President Donald Trump took the oath of office, the Brookings Institution senior fellow told the Review-Journal, “no one’s ever cared about it.”
The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or FOSTA, drew bipartisan support in Congress but was opposed by groups promoting such disparate causes as free speech, technology and sex workers’ rights.
President Donald Trump’s decision to send Vice President Mike Pence to South America this week in his stead forced Pence to cancel a planned appearance at a fundraising luncheon in Las Vegas for Nevada Sen. Dean Heller on Friday.
President Donald Trump wants to help federal inmates “who have served their time get a second chance.” Thank Trump’s senior aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner, for whom prison reform is personal.