Category: Politics

Readers expressed their hopes for the next administration and wrote of their personal sorrows in letters to president-elect Biden ahead of his swearing in.

Joe Biden is inheriting a weak recovery. Growth is expected to pick up quickly as the vaccines are widely distributed, but getting 10 million people back to work is likely to take longer.

From pleas to unify the country, to reminders that Americans are suffering, Washington Post readers write to vice president-elect Kamala Harris before she takes office.

Biden’s economic agenda must prop up a buckling U.S. economy long enough for the pandemic to wane.

The revelation marks another example of the intelligence failures preceding last week’s deadly assault, critics say.

He’s always held Trump at enough of a distance to be able to offer a different pitch to the president’s base.

Few have sacrificed so much for Trump. That fact that even that wasn’t enough should send a message to a GOP considering a more permanent break with Trump.

The closure expands federal and local efforts to batten down D.C. in preparation for security concerns surrounding the Jan. 20 swearing in of President-elect Joe Biden.

Figuring out the balance between security and civil liberties.

With less than seven days remaining in his presidency, Trump’s inner circle is shrinking, offices in his White House are emptying, and he is angry over the backlash to his incitement of a mob that stormed the Capitol.

Two new polls reinforce that what might have seemed at the time liked a sound political move at the time has earned Hawley few friends and many more enemies.

The rioters almost to a person ignored the Stringer Bell edict: don’t record your own crimes — especially on Parler.