Charles Lane

Lane: Republicans have raised a white flag on health care

March 9, 2017 at 4:32 p.m.

After eight years of all-out political and ideological struggle against Obamacare, Republicans have surrendered -- pretty much on all fronts.

SNAP households spend 20 percent of their benefits, typically about $255 per month per household, on sweetened beverages (including both sodas and non-fizzy drinks), desserts, salty snacks, candy and sugar.

Lane: How liberals undermine food stamps

May 26, 2017 at 11:41 a.m.

One of every five SNAP dollars goes to items that are permissible under the program's rules but lack nutritional value -- and may contribute to chronic conditions such as diabetes...

Lane: Obama’s wishful thinking on President-elect Trump

November 17, 2016 at 5:35 p.m.

Obama takes Trump neither literally nor seriously. He hopes, or jumps to the conclusion, that Trump has no core policy beliefs, and might be managed by political realities.

Lane: Little good has come from the EB-5 visa program

September 30, 2016 at 6:46 p.m.

By聽Charles Lane, The Washington Post Only 19 percent of Americans trust the federal government to do what's right most of the time, according to the Pew Research Center. And it's...

Russia's Yulia Efimova, left, looks on as the United States' Lilly King celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's 200-meter breaststroke final on Monday at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Lane: This time, Olympic athletes aren’t being polite about doping

August 11, 2016 at 1:05 p.m.

An athletes' revolt against institutionalized Olympic hypocrisy about doping has broken out at the Rio Games, as a new generation of swimmers refuses to keep quiet.

Copies of the final report on the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, rest on a podium at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday before a news conference.

Lane: The delusion that Americans in Benghazi could have been saved

June 30, 2016 at 1:48 p.m.

You鈥檒l never guess who comes off as a hero of the Republican-drafted House Benghazi committee鈥檚 majority report: President Obama.

Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in Charleston, S.C., on June 19, 2015. U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced last month that the Justice Department will urge execution for Roof for killing nine people at a South Carolina Church.

Lane: The death penalty and the worst of the worst

June 9, 2016 at 4:21 p.m.

The Obama administration, perhaps the least favorable to capital punishment in recent memory, might not have sought the death penalty against Dylann Roof a year ago.

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