Tag: Salena Zito

9 women to watch in politics

Salena Zito · March 13, 2017 5:01 am

Whether in their preferences at the ballot box or in running for elected office themselves, women exert blunt and heavy political force. (Illustration by Bill Lesniewski for the Washington Examiner)

The power of women

Salena Zito · March 13, 2017 5:01 am

Melissa Hays, a waitress at Froelich's Classic Corner in Steubenville, Ohio, thinks most Washington politicians are "out for themselves" rather than for working Americans. (Frank Craig for the Washington Examiner)

Love and hate in Ohio

Salena Zito · March 12, 2017 4:04 am

If Trump wades into this mess called Obamacare, he could immediately end a GOP civil war before it starts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump should put on his surgical gloves to fix Obamacare

Salena Zito · March 5, 2017 5:04 am

Of all the Republican-held districts in the country, Hillary Clinton ran further ahead of Barack Obama in this Georgia district than in any other except Texas's 7th House District, a demographically similar seat in the Houston suburbs.

A referendum on Trump in Newt’s old district

Salena Zito · February 26, 2017 5:02 am

Tricia Croney, the owner of Pretty Hunter, a Michigan-based company offering gun-related product lines for women, believes women "not only feel but behave much more confident" when they know how to hunt and how to defend themselves. She was one of many Great American Outdoor Show vendors appealing to the growing numbers of female gun enthusiasts. (Frank Craig for the Washington Examiner)

Women with guns: The next threat to the Democratic Party

Salena Zito · February 25, 2017 5:01 am

"I didn't know what kind of Republican he was going to be. He was supporting Democrats four or five years ago," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Sen. McConnell: How I helped Trump win the White House

Salena Zito · February 21, 2017 5:01 am

Mine workers and leaders from unions representing steelworkers, farmers, teachers, maritime workers and others march in a labor rally along State Route 21 to the Greene County Fairgrounds in Waynesburg, Pa. The coal industry that helped build southwestern Pennsylvania has declined for years. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Where coal is still king

Salena Zito · February 19, 2017 5:03 am

You could walk around last week's Great American Outdoor Show, held in the massive Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, and carry your firearms anywhere among the 650,000 square feet of displays. (Photo: Frank Craig)

At the world’s largest gun show, thankfulness for Trump

Salena Zito · February 14, 2017 5:01 am

Could this Trump Country candidate lead the Democratic Party?

Salena Zito · February 13, 2017 5:01 am

Lyndon B. Johnson placed a longtime political associate, Abe Fortas, on the court in part so that Fortas could alert him if his Great Society programs faced legal jeopardy and to keep the court from overturning them. He persuaded a sitting justice, Arthur Goldberg, to step down and become UN ambassador in order to open a seat for Fortas, who eventually was forced to resign in disgrace. (AP Photo/Ed Kolenovsky)

Trump attack on judge hardly unprecedented. FDR, LBJ and Obama did the same.

Salena Zito · February 12, 2017 6:00 am

So how do we reconstruct this sluggish smothering decline in the real value of America's trust in institutions when opportunities continue to shrink rather than grow? There is no easy single answer.

Americans don’t trust anymore, and that’s a big problem

Salena Zito · February 5, 2017 5:05 am