E.J. Dionne Jr.

House Speaker Paul Ryan holds a news conference last Friday at the U.S. Capitol. In a big setback to the agenda of President Donald Trump, Ryan cancelled a vote for the American Health Care Act, the GOP plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Dionne: The lessons Trump and Ryan failed to learn from history

March 27, 2017 at 9:02 a.m.

If President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan had paid attention to Mitt Romney, they could have avoided the fiasco of their now dead and unmourned health care bill.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee member question Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday, the third day of his conformation hearing.

Dionne: Neil Gorsuch’s convenient untruth

March 22, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.

With a shrewdly calculated innocence, Judge Neil Gorsuch told a big fat lie at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Because it was a lie everyone expected, nobody called it that.

House Speaker Paul Ryan explains the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act during a March 9 press conference at the U.S. Capitol.

Dionne: Health care and “The Virtue of Selfishness”

March 15, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.

Left-wingers are often cast as dreamy utopians, but it's Ryan and his allies who pretend they can create a capitalist paradise in health care.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during ...

Dionne: Trump, Russia and the limits of misdirection

March 5, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.

The Russia scandal could engulf Trump's presidency because those in his orbit who engaged with Moscow stuck with lies and misdirection until their falsehoods were publicly revealed and their positions...

Customers at a Chinese restaurant in Miami watch television Tuesday night as President Donald Trump delivers a speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

Dionne: Trump delivers old words in new wrapping

March 1, 2017 at 10:45 a.m.

The obsession with Donald Trump's ability to spend one hour in a disciplined relationship with a teleprompter obscured one of his central goals on Tuesday night: scaring the country.

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference Thursday at the White House.

Dionne: Admit it: Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president

February 16, 2017 at 2:30 p.m.

Let's not mumble or whisper about the central issue facing our country: What is this democratic nation to do when the man serving as president plainly has no business being...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by members of the House Financial Services Committee, criticizes President Donald Trump's pro-Wall Street policies during a news conference in Washington on Monday.

A game plan for Donald Trump’s foes

February 6, 2017 at 10:14 a.m.

While almost everything in our politics these days has a strongly partisan cast, the anti-Trump forces cannot be defined by party or ideology.

Left: Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's 2016 Supreme Court nominee. Right: Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's nominee.

Dionne: Republicans’ extreme hypocrisy on Supreme Court nominees

February 1, 2017 at 6:00 p.m.

You want bipartisanship on Supreme Court nominations? Let's have a consensual moment around Sen. Ted Cruz's idea that having only eight Supreme Court justices is just fine.

Senior adviser Jared Kushner, counselor Stephen Bannon and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus raise their hands during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 22.

Dionne: No, Steve Bannon, media silence isn’t an option

November 3, 2017 at 5:14 p.m.

With a single interview, Stephen K. Bannon dispelled any illusions that normal or productive relations with the media will even be possible under the Trump administration.

Hope Tackaberry demonstrates outside of the Texas State Capitol during a rally attempting to influence Republican electors from across the state to not vote for Donald Trump when they cast their formal ballots for president on Dec. 19.

Dionne: Electoral College is the worst of both worlds

December 26, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

It's important for those who favor the popular election of our presidents to separate their arguments for direct democracy from the outcome of a particular contest.

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