Dan Balz
Can the same president build a new landscape?
THE TAKE | After a long and arduous campaign, a newly reelected President Obama confronts his next challenge: binding together a deeply divided nation and turning from campaigning to governing.
Open-and-shut White House
(Ricky Carioti)
What of Obama’s lofty vows of transparency?
The Fix by Chris Cillizza
The case for Tim Scott
Haley's decision is totally up to her, but many are already expecting her to pick Rep. Tim Scott.
Dan Balz
Obama’s reelection, by the numbers
THE TAKE | On Tuesday night, as much as anything, numbers told a story of how President Obama won a second term despite a climate that had long favored Mitt Romney and the Republicans.
Dan Balz
After election, a time to ask, ‘What if?’
THE TAKE | Politics, like so much in life, can be haunted by questions of what could have been.
Right Turn
Marco Rubio's vision for education
The Florida senator wades into policy in a way he has not done before.
Wonkblog
Reconciliation
John McAfee is on the lamb in Central America, the health benefits of having grandmothers, and other things we missed today.
Wonkblog
The austerity crisis and 2016
There are a number of powerful Republicans who would see their futures dimmed by a grand bargin that deals with deficits. That's going to make it harder for them to agree to such a deal -- a particular problem given that one of them chairs the House Budget Committee.
Wonkblog
Five facts about veterans health care
The Veterans Administration runs the country's largest health care system, with more than 1,400 hospitals and employing nearly 15,000 doctors.
Al Kamen
Table for 2 — Abramoff and DeLay
IN THE LOOP | The fellow felons meet for sushi. No word on what else was on the menu.
Al Kamen
In the Loop: White House may lose a young man of many words
Speechwriter Jon Favreau, who helped craft many Obama addresses, is considering his next career move.
Al Kamen
A tease from Hillary
Clinton says she’s not running in 2016, but she does talk around the topic, Al Kamen’s In the Loop reports.
Walter Pincus
U.S. overseeing a mysterious construction project in Israel
COLUMN | What’s the purpose of Site 911, a $100 million underground complex?
Walter Pincus
Blowback to high-tech warfare
A report notes that last year there were 680 drone programs worldwide as countries and groups try to narrow the U.S. lead in high-tech warfare.
Walter Pincus
Lessons from the past for today’s Iran
Walter Pincus discovers lessons for handling Iran’s nuclear program in the declassified CIA self-analysis of its misreading of the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Joe Davidson
House GOP targets congressional retirement benefits
It’s not unusual for House Republicans to call for limits on federal retirement benefits, but this time the targeted benefits are their own.
Joe Davidson
Unusual team opposes Defense cuts
FEDERAL DIARY | A federal workers’ union and a contractor organization oppose workforce cuts in Senate bill.
Joe Davidson
Lack of autism coverage leaves parents upset
FEDERAL DIARY | Health benefits for federal workers do not mandate coverage of “most highly regarded treatment” for autism.
Dana Milbank
Republicans wave the white flag
The question isn’t whether GOP will cave on taxes, but how and when.
Eugene Robinson
No contest
All of the GOP’s potential 2012 candidates are uninspiring or unelectable.
PostPartisan
You call this a compromise?
The White House’s ‘fiscal cliff’ plan is mere chest-thumping.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Gorbachev at 80
Though poorly appreciated at home, the former Russian leader should be honored for his great vision.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Wisconsin - it's about democracy
Unions' fight is the fight of every U.S. worker.
Robert J. Samuelson
Bad-faith bargaining
Protecting retiree benefits is the left’s version of “no new taxes.”
Anne Applebaum
Looking to their roots
Republicans should focus on their own ideas, not stealing from Democrats.
In London, killing time before U.S. election results roll in
Chatting about James Bond movie, faking tweets from Prince Charles.
PostPartisan
Ignore those polls! (2016 edition)
Voters aren't engaged in 2016 yet -- but party actors will be, and reporters should follow their candidate and policy preferences.
PostPartisan
PostScript: Parker, Rice and readers
Readers respond to Kathleen Parker's column on the story underneath the story of the Senate and U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice
PostPartisan
The McConnell Provision is a good idea
During the debt-ceiling scariness last year, Mitch McConnell devised a way for the debt ceiling to be raised by the president and signed off on by Congress. It was ingenious.
Kathleen Parker
An era of 'hard-core women'
Now would be a very good time to be a cartoonist. Or perhaps not. As the late cartoonist Doug Marlette frequently lamented, "How do you cartoon a cartoon? We're living in 'Toon Town.' "
Kathleen Parker
An era of 'hard-core women'
Now would be a very good time to be a cartoonist. Or perhaps not. As the late cartoonist Doug Marlette frequently lamented, "How do you cartoon a cartoon? We're living in 'Toon Town.' "
Fareed Zakaria
America is recovering well
Indicators show growing strength, thanks to Obama and the Fed.
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