The Louisiana Republican hoped and expected to prevail on the first ballot. Following a dramatic and highly unusual process, he succeeded.

Those looking for wisdom and constructive ideas in the wake of the deadly violence in New Orleans had reason to avoid ...

Within hours of the New Year’s attack in New Orleans, the president-elect simultaneously flunked tests of accuracy, decency ...

To hear the Republican congresswoman tell it, a prosecutor should be punished for prosecuting criminals, some of whom committed violent crimes.

The president-elect's initial response to the attack was cringeworthy — and then the Republican decided to double down on discredited misinformation.

The president-elect wants the intelligence agency to "get involved" immediately, "before it is too late." Get involved, how? It's not at all clear.

The Republican takeaway from the New Orleans attack is that Trump’s Cabinet nominees need to be confirmed quickly. There's reason to believe otherwise.

The New York Times reported that the world’s wealthiest individual effectively became the president-elect's tenant after ...

When Donald Trump endorsed the incumbent speaker, he likely hoped that it would effectively end the discussion about Mike Johnson’s fate. It did not.

It’s a problem when Trump questions the integrity of the U.S. electoral system after a defeat. It’s a weirder problem when he does it after a victory.

The Justice Department’s inspector general discredited the right's FBI conspiracy theory about Jan. 6. So why is a GOP congressman pretending otherwise?

The president-elect's new position is that he never changed his mind about H-1B visas. Reality tells a very different story.