Allen Abel

All around the U.S. capital, there is sniping and sneering, leering and lying, and no sign of civility. ’We are only just beginning.’

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, an emboldened Putin regime is embracing its czarist past. Could 1917 happen again?

On Capitol Hill, the new travel ban neither appeases critics, nor distracts from the latest questions about Trump’s sanity

The President who claimed American carnage sounds a markedly different rhetorical tone at his first address to Congress

An ordinary Wednesday in the Trump era turns D.C. into a veritable circus

Trump said the ’American carnage stops right here and stops right now,’ but history will recall the U.S. was peaceful and prosperous as his presidency began

A Bollywood star, a grizzled military vet and a bagpiper from New Jersey joined thousands of Trump followers at one of America’s iconic shrines to democracy

Answering questions on Chelsea Manning from the briefing room—which Trump considered moving out of the White House—Obama adds one last plea

As Trump prepares to take office, an examination of the nation he is being asked to heal as told through two paintings and a photograph

Americans consider the meaning of the looming Trump presidency at the memorials for Martin Luther King, Jr. and Franklin Delano Roosevelt