WASHINGTON — The late Alice Rivlin, a longtime scholar at the Brookings Institution think tank, enjoyed an unusually constructive career. Over more than four decades, Rivlin — who died recently at 88 — served as the first director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the deputy director and then director of the Office of Management […]

The American middle class just got a lot richer. Joe Biden, who invariably and tiresomely refers to himself as “Middle-Class Joe,” made $15 million the first two years after the end of the Obama administration. This hardly qualifies as a rounding error in the portfolio of any billionaire mogul, but for the average American, a […]

By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post National polls are fun and give us a general sense of the contours of the presidential race. They influence coverage and donors. But there is no “national” primary, and if you believe the most recent Democratic poll of early primary states, any of five candidates could win this. A […]

A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It happened on July 27, 1942, at the fence of the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl, Poland. Buzhminski was watching from hiding as an SS man named Kidash seized a Jewish woman and her 18-month-old son. “She held the baby in her […]

Two summers ago on a visit to Budapest, I asked the spokesman for the Hungarian government about the growing problem of migrants coming into Europe. He told me Hungary doesn’t have a migrant problem because they don’t have welfare programs. So, he said, migrants continue their travels to other European countries that do. That’s not […]

WASHINGTON — Despite a lackluster debate performance, former vice president Joe Biden is still holding on to his lead in the race for the Democratic nomination in large part because Democratic voters see him as the most electable candidate. A Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a 45 percent plurality of voters believe Biden has […]

NEW YORK — The best illustration of the incoherence of the administration’s strategy toward Iran came last week in a White House press release. “There is little doubt that even before the deal’s existence, Iran was violating its terms,” it read. The White House has not subsequently explained how a country can violate the terms […]

On Monday morning, June 24, I was making an overnight business trip to the Northern Adirondack Mountains in New York. The weather was decent and the expected tourist traffic was not too bad. Winding my way through the Western Mountains of Maine and into New Hampshire my thoughts were only on the trip before me and […]