ld signs that read "We Vape! We Vote!" outside President Trump's rally in Dallas on Oct. 17. (Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Mariana Mara THE BIG IDEA: President Trump is spurning the women who have his ear to side with male advisers as he kowtows to a pressure campaign orchestrated b

Trump kisses Hope Hicks goodbye on her last day as White House communications director on March 29, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/AP) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Mariana Mara THE BIG IDEA: What emails about Ukraine does President Trump think, or hope, will never get out? During two interviews with FBI agents and members

nie Sanders speaks on Saturday at the New Hampshire Democratic Party state convention in Manchester. (Gretchen Ertl/Reuters) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Mariana Mara THE BIG IDEA: MANCHESTER, N.H. - Several presidential candidates are offering to quench a thirst for generational change that, so far, has not mat

s at the Capitol on Friday. House investigators released the transcript of his deposition on Monday night. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) BY HOHMANN with Mariana Mara THE BIG IDEA: Holmes, the political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, testified that he "vividly" remembers his July 26 lunch at a restaur

on's hangar in Pensacola, Fla., on Nov. 5. He was forced out on Sunday as secretary of the Navy. (MI Schumaker/Navy/EPA-EFE/Rex) BY HOHMANN with Mariana Mara THE BIG IDEA: What makes America exceptional isn't any arsenal. It's moral authority. That's the upshot of Richard V. Spencer's Sunday letter to P

ity Leader Mitch McConnell, visits the Capitol in March for a lunch with the Republican caucus. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) BY HOHMANN with Mariana Mara THE BIG IDEA: Mitch McConnell told President Trump privately last month that no politician has ever lost an election for spending more money. That