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.
The Fix by Chris Cillizza
Americans split over 'fiscal cliff' deal, poll shows
A new Gallup poll shows a majority of Democrats approve of the deal, while a similar majority of Republicans do not.
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
Conservatives relish prospect of Hagel confirmation fight
If Chuck Hagel is nominated get ready for an all out war in the Senate.
Wonkblog
The breast pump industry is booming, thanks to Obamacare
Provision in health-care law that requires insurance companies to cover the device has left some retailers scrambling to keep up with demand.
Wonkblog
Reconciliation
Newt Gingrich does movie review, awkward first days in the Senate, and other links we missed today.
Wonkblog
What will Part Two of the fiscal cliff fight look like?
The Jan 1 deal was only the first stage. Here's a look at the road ahead.
Al Kamen
Monkey throws wrench in U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka
Diplomacy typically isn’t monkey business, but the folks at the U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka recently had their usual routine disrupted by a wandering primate.
Al Kamen
The new terror calendar’s out
IN THE LOOP | Who needs bikini babes or hunky firefighters when you can look at the NCTC’s most wanted?
Al Kamen
Our hunk in Helsinki
The holiday card he circulated among friends shows Ambassador David Oreck could lift a lot of vacuums.
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
Trio of budget measures could affect federal workforce in coming months
The debt limit, sequestration (again) and an expiring budget law are reasons feds should be concerned.
Joe Davidson
Deal leaves federal employees with uncertainty
Congressional action to avert a “fiscal cliff” of higher taxes and across-the-board federal budget cuts means that government agencies will avoid many dreaded spending reductions — at least for now.
Joe Davidson
Administration says furloughs are possible, but not immediately
Administration tells federal employees sequestration could lead to furloughs, but not immediately.
Dana Milbank
Boehner’s Sandy stumble
The Speaker’s deferral of the hurricane relief package was an outrage with a familar script.
Ruth Marcus
Inflation ‘adjusted’ — poorly
A clumsy measure is costing the country money when we can least afford it.
Charles Krauthammer
Return of the real Obama
After the fiscal cliff, the president is free to be himself — a committed big-government social democrat.
Charles Krauthammer
The right-to-work dilemma
Globalization forces workers to make a wrenching choice.
Robert J. Samuelson
Obama’s failure to lead
The president has refused to help Americans face unavoidable, if unpleasant, realities.
Matt Miller
Buy back guns, boost the economy
A national program to get guns off the streets could address two problems at once.
Matt Miller
A debt-ceiling victory
It’s time to remind Americans the GOP voted for $6 trillion in debt.
Anne Applebaum
‘Nutcrackers’ all around the world
A Christmas ritual that’s often entertaining and occasionally peculiar.
Anne Applebaum
A path to human rights?
Anti-corruption movement appeals to the instinct for fairness.
Anne Applebaum
Looking to their roots
Republicans should focus on their own ideas, not stealing from Democrats.
PostPartisan
The obvious filibuster compromise
More amendments and fewer filibusters -- that's how to get the Senate working again.
PostPartisan
Nancy Pelosi won't 'duck' gun violence
The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is what's driving this new push to get something done on gun violence prevention.
PostPartisan
Friday's p-Op quiz: Cliff diving
We bid adieu to 2012 this week as well as the 112th Congress. The former went by just fine. The final moments of the latter was a mess.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Not a bad cliff deal
The federal government got some sorely needed revenue, and the tax system became more progressive.
Kathleen Parker
Dear GOP — Learn Spanish
In politics, not connecting with Hispanics means no future.
Kathleen Parker
Assassinating Clinton’s character
The attacks on the secretary of state during her illness have been cruel and unfair.
Michael Gerson
Healers in the crosshairs
The Taliban threatens an almost-complete effort to eradicate polio.
Jackson Diehl
Action on Iran in 2013?
Dennis Ross sees signs that Iranian nuclear crisis could come to a head.
Colbert I. King
Every murder matters
A D.C. shooting victim falls through the cracks of media coverage.
Colbert I. King
Young, fatherless — and fathers themselves
Aiding them takes more than one D.C. agency.
Fareed Zakaria
The solution is obvious
The U.S. would not contrast so sharply with other countries if it had better limits on access to guns.
Fareed Zakaria
End the war on terror
Eleven years is long enough, especially when we can save billions — and our liberties.
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