Franklin D. Roosevelt | Capitol Hill Blue

Trump promised so much. What happened?

One-hundred-fifty baskets of pink petunias hang from the light posts all over this city, watered regularly by residents trying to make their community feel alive again. A local artist spends his afternoons high in a bucket truck, painting a block-long mural of a little girl blowing bubbles, each circle the scene of an imagined, hopeful future. But in the present, vacant buildings dominate blocks. A van, stuffed so full of blankets and boxes they are spilling from the windows, pulls to the curb o ...

by DOUG THOMPSON - Opinion

In its lead editorial Sunday, The New York Times laid out what most Americans now know and fear. Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, is unfit for the job and poses a major threat to the ...

by DARLENE SUPERVILLE

President Donald Trump will use a nationally televised address to outline for a war-weary nation the strategy he believes will best position the U.S. to eventually declare victory in Afghanistan after 16 years of combat and lives lost. The speech Monday night will also give Trump a chance for a rese ...

by JULIE PACE and BILL BARROW

President Donald Trump’s racially fraught comments about a deadly neo-Nazi rally have thrust into the open some Republicans’ deeply held doubts about his competency and temperament, in an extraordinary public airing of worries and grievances about a sitting president by his own party. Behind the hig ...