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Jennifer Harper

Jennifer Harper

A graduate of Syracuse University, Jennifer Harper writes the daily Inside the Beltway column and provides additional coverage of breaking national news, plus long-term trends in politics, media issues, public opinion, popular culture, Hollywood foibles and “eureka” moments in health and science.

She has been a frequent broadcast commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Voice of America, Citadel Broadcasting, Talk Radio Network and other news organizations. Born in Elizabeth, N.J., Ms. Harper grew up in Texas and arrived in Washington in time for Watergate -- and has been tracking the political and media landscape ever since.

She is an active member of the American Federation of TV Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild. She has won 14 journalism awards during her years at The Washington Times.

To read Jennifer Harper's Inside the Beltway columns, click here. Contact her at jharper@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Jennifer Harper

This March 15, 2013, file photo shows Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Mitt Romney stages his own summit

Now underway: Mitt Romney's fourth annual "E2 Summit" at a splendid resort in Park City, Utah. (The "E2" stands for "experts and enthusiasts," by the way.) Some 300 Republican heavyweights have gathered for the weekend for some heavy discussions and much soul-searching about the direction of the Grand Old Party. They are also parsing the possibilities of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and Mr. Romney himself, who still looks mighty presidential these days. The press is already poised to pounce. Published June 9, 2016

An insistent new graphic from an energized Republican Party tells all. (RNC)

Inside the Beltway: GOP: Newly united and ready to rumble

The Republicans have passed judgment: Things are pretty tense inside the Democratic Party as the heavyweights figure out how to spin the nomination tussle between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernard Sanders, who is not quite ready to conveniently exit, stage left, from the 2016 presidential race. Published June 8, 2016

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, had high favorability numbers throughout his time in office. (White house)

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton could learn from Ike Eisenhower

Many political campaigns have turned into data-driven enterprises that often compromise the cachet of the candidate, lost among shifting increments of poll numbers and micro-targeting. Should voter favorability prove elusive, strategists might consider a return to 1954 for practical insight. Published June 7, 2016

Undecided voters continue to make things interesting in the 2016 presidential election. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Undecided voters a force to be reckoned with in 2016

'Right now Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are going nowhere," says Fran Coombs, managing editor of the Rasmussen Reports Poll, which finds that both candidates have been mired in miserable limbo, each garnering an unchanging 40 percent of voter support for weeks. Published June 6, 2016

Gustave Courbet's "Landscape Around Ornans," a historic 19th century painting looted by Nazis during World War Ii, was recovered by the Commission for Art Recovery in Poland four years ago.

Senate to hear testimony about lost art stolen by Nazis during World War II

Actor Helen Mirren and former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and philanthropist Ron Lauder appear Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on a visceral issue that has troubled many for seven decades: the repatriation of art stolen by the Nazis before and during World War II. Published June 6, 2016

American troops approach Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. (U.S. Army photo)

Inside the Beltway: Recognition of Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer sought for WWII memorial

Monday is 72nd anniversary of D-Day, marking the hours when 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. The cost: 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded that day. Four U.S. soldiers earned the Medal of Honor. A solemn event marks that herculean effort at the National World War II Memorial on the Mall. World War II and D-Day veterans will place wreaths at the site's Atlantic Arch, as will European Union Ambassador to the United States David O'Sullivan and Josiah Bunting III, chairman of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial, the nonprofit that organized the event. Published June 5, 2016

A new poll gives Donald Trump better marks than Hillary Clinton on ability to handle the economy, jobs, terrorism and national security, taxes, the federal government, gun policy and Wall Street. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Inside the Beltway: Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton on economy, jobs, terrorism, taxes

"If the race for president comes down to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Trump could benefit from an edge in public confidence on the issues Americans are prioritizing most this election," notes Lydia Saad, a Gallup analyst, where a new poll finds Mr. Trump better able to handle to handle the economy, jobs, terrorism and national security, taxes, the federal government, gun policy and Wall Street. Published June 2, 2016