Speaker Nancy Pelosi has lost considerable ground as the public grows increasingly skeptical about her priorities, causing more moderate Democrats to consider her a problem for their party.

A new book is an account of Nancy Pelosi's tenure so far as speaker, but also tries to put her into the broader context of contemporary American politics and Congress.

It isn’t easy to attract 2,000 people to a conference on women’s rights. But Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, carried it off. On March 8, she filled an auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York City with mostly high-powered professional women and kept them enthralled for three days.

The House vote Thursday night was a delayed consequence of the public's long-apparent rejection of Democrat policies.

House Democrats have shown a shameless willingness to play politics with our national security.

Think of Uncle Sam walking in a wind tunnel leading to insolvency. The budget deal’s cuts increased the headwind he has to walk into, but they don’t do anything that forces him to turn around.

The GOP wants to cut $61 billion of discretionary nondefense spending from the total budget of $3.7 trillion, and Democrats are responding as if this will spell the end of Western civilization.

John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi should step in before this Waters embarrassment gets worse and hits a House that is already at a nadir in terms of public approval.