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The current environment is perfect for Rahm Emanuel to take command. He's bare-knuckled, sharp-elbowed and would unsettle Trump--bullies abhor equal or greater strength. I've always believed the highest praise you [...]

Facing headwinds from crime, immigration and an election day snowstorm, former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D) succeeded Tuesday in winning back his old job representing New York's 3rd District by convincingly [...]

Almost two years after the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, the 118th Congress will assemble on the House floor, collectively raise their right hands and take their oaths [...]

History, we are told, repeats and rhymes. Now the aphorism strikes in Ukraine, in missiles streaking across skies, in the rumble of tanks. It is either historical coincidence or a [...]

Byline: Steve Israel This is the story of a congressional staffer who committed a crime; and a larger crime that was committed against him. It's a story of a fever [...]

Byline: Steve Israel July 11 marks the 59th anniversary of the release of 'Advise & Consent,' Allen Drury's Pulitzer-winning political novel about a progressive secretary of state nominee with communist [...]

It has been 38 days since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.; 174 days since the shooting at a concert in Las Vegas; 1,011 [...]

In a few minutes, you will finish reading this column and move to the next. Now you know everything you need to know about why over 100 Americans have been [...]

Former President Trump's address last weekend to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in which he publicly identified his opponents, had all the charm and grace of another speech given [...]

In recent years, threats of government shutdowns have come with the regularity and, until now, predictability of one of those TV channels running marathons of old sitcoms. And here we [...]

Byline: Steve Israel When I used to visit troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, I liked to ask an unexpected question: 'What are you reading?' The responses weren't much different on [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- In the wake of one the deadliest mass shootings in our nation's history, perhaps the most asked question by Americans is, ''Will anything change?'' The simple answer [...]

Byline: STEVE ISRAEL Correction Appended WASHINGTON -- In the wake of one the deadliest mass shootings in our nation's history, perhaps the most asked question by Americans is, 'Will anything [...]

A congressman was shot early Wednesday morning while playing baseball with his colleagues in Virginia. The congressman, Steve Scalise, the majority whip of the House of Representatives, is in critical [...]

Byline: Steve Israel July 11 marks the 59th anniversary of the release of 'Advise & Consent,' Allen Drury's Pulitzer-winning political novel about a progressive secretary of state nominee with communist [...]

The 2020 election is over (unless you think like President Trump). The 2022 election cycle begins, and with it the biennial Democratic debate over the party's message. It is a [...]

No matter who wins the election for president, Democrats are once more stunned. How could the race be so close? The answer is evident if we are willing to do [...]

In Washington, the traditional timeline of m ourning for the passing of an important public official usually lasts several hours before turning into fevered speculation about the political implications. For [...]

'If this election is a referendum on statues and not on Donald Trump, you Democrats will lose.' That was the warning of a Republican friend of mine. He detests the [...]

Forget the possibility of war breaking out in the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Strait, or Persian Gulf. The next outbreak is likely to involve Brooklyn and Boca. The governors of New [...]

When Fox News and CNN agree on something, pay attention, then disregard it as quickly as possible. Last week, Fox News showed Joe Biden leading by 9 points over Donald [...]

Unruly crowds at town halls are taking members of Congress by surprise. Many are so intimidated that they are refusing to show up. President Trump recently tweeted, ''The so-called angry [...]

Washington -- Once, I occupied a prized office in the Rayburn House Office Building, with a commanding view that stretched to the Lincoln Memorial. Now, I occupy Cubicle No. 45, [...]

Byline: Steve Israel The Washington Post asks policy experts: How can the next president improve the uncooperative atmosphere in Washington? --- Both sides of the aisle can agree that this [...]

What a difference a debate makes. In South Carolina on Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden found his swing. It was the Biden many of us know and wanted [...]

Washington -- IT'S now safe to pick up your phones and read your emails. That's right, I won't be calling to ask you to donate to my congressional campaign. As [...]

We have been political adversaries, of a sort. One of us chaired the National Republican Campaign Committee, the other chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. We have differing views on [...]

We have been political adversaries, of a sort. One of us chaired the National Republican Campaign Committee, the other chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. We have differing views on [...]

President Trump, the national polls tell us, is at an historically low level of sustained disapproval. Most polls indicate that Joe Biden currently leads his closest Democratic rivals in the [...]

In any other political climate this would make a juicy political thriller. A president running behind in critical battleground states is pushed by a hard-line national security adviser to pull [...]

If there was a Congressional Consistency Caucus, it might be the loneliest group on Capitol Hill. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan would be the chairman, vice chairman and sole member. [...]

Several years ago, I was invited to meet with senior Fox News executives at their headquarters in Manhattan. At the time, I chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the [...]

There is something deeply troubling, and even dangerous, about the fevered debate over the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on members of Congress. Both the left [...]

The king has no clothes. He has been stripped bare and, this time, some in his own party are pulling away his garments, exposing him for what he is. I [...]

It's not that President Trump plays with electoral fire, it's that he seems to wallow in napalm. The latest incendiarism involves Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and how his dismissal [...]