Matthew Cooper

At the GOP retreat in Philadelphia, the president and the House speaker are all smiles.

Accusations that Russia assisted Trump's presidential campaign have liberals turning back into hawks.

Paul Ryan and Donald Trump used to feud. They don't any longer.

Top scholars are launching an emoluments suit, but it may not work.

The president's very nationalist, anti-Washington speech bears the hallmarks of his adviser.

As president, he'll make sweeping changes, but they may not go as far as some liberals expect.

Why the president-elect is getting what he wants out of Congress, from Cabinet picks to legislation.

The New Jerseyan breaks Senate custom to fight against a colleague, Jeff Sessions.

Obama's goodbye speech was a fitting, if occasionally gassy, coda to his eight years in office delivered just before the beginning of the Donald Trump era.

The pathbreaking president's final stage isn't his best.

The assassination of Andrey Karlov comes at a difficult moment for America's relationship with Turkey and Russia—one made more complex by a change in administrations.

The Netflix film about Obama at Columbia hits and misses.

A congressman and former Navy Seal, Zinke may be Trump's most interesting and unpredictable Cabinet choice.

The fiery diplomat has been a Putin critic. Would it continue under President Trump?

Love him on taxes and deregulation, hate him on trade and those midnight tweets.

It's generally been a no-no to appoint a CEO or union leader to a presidential cabinet, until now.

Our list includes "Weiner," "O.J.: Made in America," "Newtown" and "The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years."

We loved series like "Stranger Things," "The Crown," "Good Girls Revolt" and "Mr. Robot."

The list includes fiction titles like "The Girls" and "The Underground Railroad," and nonfiction ones like "Blood in the Water" and "Dark Money."

The GOP-controlled Congress likely won't care about the president-elect's vast conflicts of interest if he doesn't relinquish ownership of his business.

The current system ensures most states are ignored while a few swing states hoard the attention.

Trump will have his quickest success overturning Obama's immigration policies, but the Affordable Care Act will be cumbersome to repeal.

Blue-collar whites say Trump understands how to get the jobs back. We're about to find out if that's true.

He will be first president without any political or military experience.

Questions swirl as the bureau becomes more deeply entwined in the election.

The truth is James Comey didn't have a choice.

Donald Trump has plenty of woes in Utah, usually a reliably red state, and one of them is Tim Kaine.

Four answers the Republican should have given to Chris Wallace.

Why Trump lost the final debate—and his shot at being president.

Dramatic new developments in the New Hampshire prep school sex case raise questions for families everywhere: What happens when sex and computers meet the law?