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Salvage crews last week continued to remove wreckage from the cargo ship Dali after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

The immigrant story we sometimes forget

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted April 18, 2024 at 6:00am
Republican Senate candidate Steve Garvey tosses a baseball to supporters at his election night watch party on March 5 in Palm Desert, Calif.

Steve Garvey: Not the next Jim Bunning

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted April 17, 2024 at 3:45pm
Unidentified men carry a model of Iran's first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, past a mosque during a celebration of Iran's attack on Israel. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

‘Unholy alliance’: Congress needs to act as global crises threaten West

By David Winston
Posted April 17, 2024 at 6:00am
The procession outside Donald Trump’s hush money trial over the past couple weeks has looked like a casting call for “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” Curtis writes. From left, Rep. Byron Donalds, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Speaker Mike Johnson and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy listen as Trump speaks to reporters in New York City on May 14.

Trump’s mini-mes in uniform are waging war on American institutions

Former President Donald Trump, center, sits with his attorneys Todd Blanche, left, and Emil Bove before jury selection in his trial on 34 felony counts in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday.

Avoid hot takes on Trump’s supposed trial of the century

By Walter Shapiro
Posted April 16, 2024 at 6:00am
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and Speaker Mike Johnson pose for a photo before Kishida addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday.

Editor’s Note: What passes for normal in Congress

By Jason Dick
Posted April 12, 2024 at 2:49pm
Members of the Siberian battalion of the Ukrainian military take part in a training exercise near Kyiv on April 10.

We must support Ukraine: Future generations will thank us

By Doug Jones
Posted April 12, 2024 at 6:00am
As voters consider abortion rights, they might question party loyalty. Or maybe they won’t, Curtis writes. Above, activists rally for and against abortion drug access as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on March 26.

Abortion is on the ballot. But so is loyalty to Trump

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted April 11, 2024 at 6:00am
Reps. Mary Miller, R-Ill., right, Joe Courtney, D-Conn., and Lisa McClain, R-Mich., at a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing in June 2023.

Taxing health insurance: The Republican zombie that refuses to die

By Rep. Joe Courtney
Posted April 10, 2024 at 6:00am
Voting signs for New York’s 3rd District special election are pictured outside City Hall in Glen Cove, N.Y., on Feb. 4.

The price of hyper-partisanship: Confidence in elections undermined

By David Winston
Posted April 10, 2024 at 6:00am
Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

The way Congress spends taxpayer money is broken. Here’s how to fix it

By Rep. Robert Aderholt
Posted April 9, 2024 at 6:00am