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How did the president not know about these problems?


Bonus payments to hospital administrators were supposed to improve VA healthcare. Instead, they made it much worse.


After years of agent misconduct and management turning a blind eye, is Border Patrol finally curbing its force problem?


From shooting through the border fence to shooting into fleeing cars — and cases of on-the-job assault and rape — Border Patrol is using force in too many situations, with too little oversight


Applying new rules for prison sentences to existing prisoners would save billions of dollars — and probably wouldn’t result in higher crime


Did Republicans conduct a “shadow” process to get the new districts they wanted?


Blame drought in Brazil and a fungus in Central America


The VA already struggles to meet patient demand. Obamacare will cause that demand to grow.


Stop trying to make a neo-Soviet Empire happen. It’s never going to happen.


On Thursday night, a curious thing happened at the cruel competition known as the National Spelling Bee: two winners were crowned.


Abdel Fatah al-Sisi won the vote, but with turnout so disastrously low it has harmed his legitimacy.


As the VA scandal grows, the White House moves to hold people accountable.


Warning signs were present that something was going wrong with waiting times at VHA facilities, and nobody followed up.

