Dana Milbank

WASHINGTON -- "I hear you," President Obama said to the voters who gave Democrats an electoral drubbing in Tuesday's midterm elections. But their message went in one presidential ear and out the other. The Republican victory was a political earthquake, giving the opposition...

WASHINGTON — The old frenemies sat in the Oval Office on Wednesday, their chair legs 18 inches apart, attempting some reasonable facsimile of personal chemistry. Maybe the 12th time would be the charm. President Obama leaned back, elegantly cross-legged. Israeli Prime Minister...

WASHINGTON — Julia Pierson is really putting “secret” into the Secret Service. First, her agency declared that the White House fence jumper who made it all the way into the Executive Mansion was unarmed; turned out later that he had a knife. Then the agency said the...

WASHINGTON — It was just like the good old days. Scooter Libby was in the front row. Paul Wolfowitz was in the second. And on the stage was Dick Cheney, beating the drums of war. “The situation is dire, and defeating these terrorists will require immediate, sustained,...

WASHINGTON -- Now it can be told: Bill Clinton was a secret adviser to George W. Bush. "He used to call me twice a year in his second term, just to talk," the 42nd president disclosed Monday, with the 43rd president at his side. The two would talk "somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes,...

WASHINGTON — President Obama must really be teed off. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his once-loyal secretary of state and his likeliest successor, has gone rogue, criticizing his foreign policy as too timid. Obama responded with not one but two rounds of golf. Clinton,...