E.J. Dionne Jr.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies ...

Kavanaugh hearing taught us a great deal about the character of two people

September 30, 2018 at 9:03 p.m.

In a process already saturated with cynicism and soured by bad faith, it would be shameful but unsurprising if an FBI investigation aimed at shedding light on Christine Blasey Ford's...

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks to reporters about Senate Republicans released health care bill on Thursday at the U.S. Capitol.

Dionne: Republicans want you to believe these lies about health care

June 25, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.

To succeed in gutting health coverage for millions of Americans, Senate Republican leaders need to get a series of lies accepted as truth.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, flanked by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, a day after Republican Karen Handel won Georgia's special congressional election.

Dionne: In Georgia special election, a victory for party, not Trump

June 21, 2017 at 1:56 p.m.

Karen Handel's victory over Democrat Jon Ossoff was not an endorsement of the president. It was a personal and party success achieved despite him.

British Prime Minister Theresa May sits with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as she holds a Cabinet meeting on Monday. The Cabinet met for the first time Monday after a reshuffle by May following last week's general election.

Dionne: How the British right went wrong

June 21, 2017 at 1:46 p.m.

Theresa May forgot that 48 percent of British voters rejected Brexit and were still not happy about the outcome. They were looking for ways to strike back, and they did.

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking to the press on Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on May 13.

Dionne: A long, slow investigation of Trump and Russia would be bad for all involved

May 18, 2017 at 10:34 a.m.

There is really only one issue in American politics at this moment: Will we accelerate our way to the end of the Trump story, or will our government remain mired...

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron, left, and outgoing President Francois Hollande attend a ceremony to mark the end of World War II at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Monday, Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen handily in Sunday's presidential vote, and now must pull together a majority for his year-old political movement by mid-June legislative elections.

Dionne: Macron won — now comes the hard part

May 8, 2017 at 10:39 a.m.

France's Emmanuel Macron ran as a confident and unflinching advocate of pluralism and openness. But he will have to govern a deeply torn nation in a surly mood.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, appears in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday after the House passed the American Health Care Act.

Dionne: The staggering indecency of the GOP’s Anti-Health-Care bill

May 5, 2017 at 4:41 p.m.

May 4, 2017, should forever be marked as the day when the House of Representatives descended to a new level of cruelty, irresponsibility and social meanness.

Then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House on Feb. 1.

Dionne: Donald Trump’s true 100-day achievement

April 26, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.

Donald Trump's greatest single achievement in his first 100 days in office is that we are not talking much about whether Russia colluded with Trump's campaign to help elect him.

President Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, on Jan. 22 at the White House.

Dionne: Is Trump throwing Bannon under the bus this time?

November 3, 2017 at 5:08 p.m.

Every aspect of Donald Trump's approach to the presidency blown up on him, but as is always the case with him, he will not take any personal responsibility for what's...

Surrounded by miners from Rosebud Mining, President Donald Trump signs the Energy Independence Executive Order at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington on Tuesday. Trump claimed an end to the "war on coal" as he moved to roll back climate protections enacted by President Barack Obama.

Dionne: Trump delivers a lump of coal to working-class Americans

March 29, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.

Whatever happened to the interests of the working class? Weren't they supposed to be front and center in the Trump administration?

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