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Hardly anyone, including the federal government itself, has confidence in the constitutionally mandated decennial census that will take place in 2020.
The Economist magazine is marking its 175th birthday with a special issue that looks back on its history and speculates about the future.
As a Catholic, as a woman and as the daughter of a woman who suffers from past clergy sexual abuse, I share in the pain that the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report has brought to our faith community.
When the call for help comes in, emergency medical services organizations respond.
Appearances matter — especially to President Donald Trump.
Eight months after the collapse of President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, his administration has renewed pursuit of its unproven contentions of improper voting, this time with a...
Democrats are bullish about the November elections. They think they’ll win control of the House of Representatives, score big gains in the statehouses and run competitively in contests for U.S.
It has long been an accepted axiom in the United States — and also in many advanced democracies — that the future would be better than the past.
For those in favor of tighter regulations on everything from student loans to carbon emissions, there’s not a lot of joy coming out of the federal government.
If Franz Kafka had written about confirmation hearings, he couldn’t have come up with a better scenario than the one now unfolding in the U.S. Senate.
So much of our reasoning about race is both emotional and faulty.
In just four weeks since its release, Pennsylvania’s gut-wrenching grand jury report on widespread child sexual abuse by Catholic priests has reverberated around the country with attorneys...
Now that the woman behind a fuzzy, anonymous sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has gone public with her accusation, it must be taken seriously.
The world is watching as Russia and the Syrian regime prepare to unleash the biggest bloodbath yet in the Syrian saga of horrors.
President Donald Trump has gone so far as to suggest that he possesses “a magic wand” capable of producing unexpectedly robust economic growth. I don’t know about a magic wand.
Barack Obama is the best president Republicans have ever had.
FORT WORTH, Texas — It is a difficult time to be a Roman Catholic.
I never liked the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” The implication was that we’d entered some dystopian era in which America was unexceptional, unpleasant, and diminished.
President Donald Trump is showing that it’s possible to preside over a period of peace and prosperity and still be notably unpopular.
The decision of David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, to rescind Steve Bannon’s invitation to speak at the magazine’s festival next month has created a storm of protest.
They’ve got to watch him every minute, deceive him, disobey him, control him through hook and crook, whatever it takes, and you know what I am talking about.
The anonymous op-ed in the New York Times said that senior staff officials have considered invoking the 25th Amendment to have President Donald Trump declared incapable of performing the duties of...
Ten years after the 2008-09 financial crisis, we’re swamped with studies and reminiscences.
The world has seen this scenario before.
The economic recovery is really beginning to reach into Trump country.
