Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher ...

It says everything that the media are up in arms about the deportation of a Hamas protest group leader, Mahmoud Kahlil. The ...

Under the direction of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and his DOGE crew have reinvented "truth" and done irreparable ...

MSNBC is fleshing out its new lineup for weekend programming. as a familiar face to CNN  viewers, Catherine Rampell, is joining the network. She will serve as a cohost on MSNBC‘s The Weekend on the ...

Catherine Rampell, syndicated opinion columnist for The Washington Post, will co-host the evening edition of MSNBC ‘s The ...

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Our columnists debate Trump’s latest plan to reduce the federal footprint.

Columnists and writers Philip Bump, Catherine Rampell, Ruth Marcus, Ramesh Ponnuru, Eduardo Porter, Megan McArdle, Jason Willick, E.J. Dionne and Shadi Hamid offered real-time commentary during ...

President Donald Trump's actions of the past six weeks have positioned him to forfeit "what could have been the next great ...

Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism.

Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism.