WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Justices take up an expedited challenge to a law that could ban TikTok on Jan. 19, unless the social app agrees to divestment from Chinese ownership. Why did the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upho...

31 Des 202421min

Jimmy Carter, who won the Oval Office after the Watergate scandals by portraying himself as an earnest evangelical, dies at age 100. The 39th president served only one term, which was marred by an ene...

30 Des 202421min

The president spares 37 of the 40 inmates facing the federal death penalty, commuting their sentences to life in prison. Is this an appropriate use of the pardon power, issuing mass clemency based on ...

27 Des 202423min

Donald Trump has seemingly put the expansion of the United States on his agenda with threats of reclaiming the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, and wanting to make Canada the 51st state. How much of...

26 Des 202420min

Congress passes a bill to fund the government, narrowly averting a shutdown over the holidays, but what did Donald Trump and Elon Musk accomplish by going nuclear on the initial legislation? Is this a...

24 Des 202423min

On this episode of All Things, Kim Strassel looks back at some of the podcast’s 2024 all-stars, including candidates who correctly predicted their own victories, as well as at experts who called the i...

24 Des 202427min

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was Donald Trump's first choice to be Attorney General, denies illegal wrongdoing, but a House investigation into his past conduct finds "substantial evidence" of drug use,...

23 Des 202424min

Speaker Mike Johnson scrambled to avoid a government shutdown, after Donald Trump and Elon Musk blew up his first deal and a floor vote on a slimmed-down alternative failed package failed. What will b...

20 Des 202421min