Last month, a message on the White House website declared that “the Trump Administration has been the most transparent and accessible administration in modern American history ... ensuring the American people are constantly in touch with what their government is doing.”  But if an administration is defined by what it does, this White House has been anything but transparent and accessible. In...

Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters that this weekend’s ongoing peace talks in Florida are constructive, amid the Trump administration’s latest push to strike a deal to end the war with Ukraine. “The discussions are proceeding constructively. They began earlier and will continue today, and will also continue tomorrow,” Dmitriev said Saturday in Miami. Dmitriev...

President Trump’s pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro continues to ramp up, with his threat this past week to impose a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers, but the administration’s messaging on its endgame has only become more muddled.  Trump has not ruled out war with Venezuela, warning Tuesday that the U.S. military presence in...

Democrats say they've finally found their footing. And the Democratic National Committee (DNC) says it agrees. Democrats are winning again.  So why would they put out an autopsy report that talks about how they lost? The party, says DNC Chair Ken Martin, needs to move forward, not look back. That's the position Democrats find themselves in...