Ron Elving
Stories
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What The Passing Of The Infrastructure Bill Could Mean For Future Senate Cooperation
The Senate voted with a bipartisan majority to advance a key piece of President Biden's agenda, approving a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Is it a sign that Washington may become functional again?
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Michael Wolff's Third Strike At Trump White House Has Hits And Misses
The author has gifts as a writer: a novelistic eye for scene and detail, an ear for dramatic dialogue. His story keeps moving, free of constraints common to courtroom lawyers or newspaper reporters.
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Week In Politics: Rising COVID-19 Cases, Analyzing Cuban Relations, New Trump Book Out
New COVID-19 cases among the unvaccinated are increasing fast. And a new book with allegations about how former president Donald Trump wanted to use the military.
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How It Went Down: Authors Go Deep Into Doomed 2020 Trump White House
By haranguing all who will listen, in interviews or rally rants, Donald Trump even now is demonstrating his abiding and preternatural confidence in his own persuasiveness.
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Seeking A Path Back To A Glorious Fourth As COVID Clouds Begin To Part
The hopeful message of the moment is that in various ways we are finding our way — maybe even approaching the normal that we never imagined we could miss so much.
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Week In Politics: U.S. Will Not Reach July 4 Vaccination Goal
The U.S. will narrowly miss President Biden's July 4 vaccination goal but the country is still in a far better position than July 4, 2020.
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Biden Takes The Stage In His Dream Role, But The Pandemic Still Sets The Scene
The president laid out an ambitious agenda in his address to Congress, but in a chamber largely empty due to COVID-19 restrictions, he was reminded of the thin majorities with which he has to work.
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Can Biden Join FDR And LBJ In The Democratic Party's Pantheon?
The sheer scale of the Biden agenda finds an analog in the early achievements of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. But which of those offers the better insight into what's happening now?
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Hunter Biden's Memoir 'Beautiful Things' Seeks To Tell Just Where He's Been
The account by the president's younger son is at times a harrowing journey; in the end, if not for forgiveness or sympathy, it may be about making a stand and taking whatever place he can occupy.
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More Than A Month Later, It's Still Jan. 6 On Capitol Hill
The attack on the Capitol continues to cast a shadow over Congress both as a building and an institution, as it remains either the subject or subtext of most every political discussion in Washington.
