Washington

Someone finally harnessed the Internet for a political campaign. Unfortunately, it’s Donald Trump, the Internet’s media-proof id.

People in the United States accept firearms and gunplay as essential, albeit occasionally regrettable, elements of what it means to be American.

For the record: The U.S. President’s prepared remarks on America’s war against ISIS

Barack Obama has clearly failed in his goals to degrade Islamic State. Will tonight’s speech dictate a new way forward?

Scott Feschuk envisions a certain Republican luminary reading ’Twas the Night Before Christmas’ to young children

Leading privacy-rights lawyer Jameel Jaffer on why Obama is as secretive as Bush on national security, and why privacy issues are hard to sell

For the record: Remarks by President Barack Obama at the First Session of COP21

Marco Rubio has what it takes to be America’s president. But first, he needs to triumph in a crowded, histrionic Republican field.

Refugees become a 2016 U.S. election issue as Republicans clarify who they would and would not allow in

With the DEA and the CIA often working at cross-purposes, observers say it’s a war that can’t be won