Political violence is exceedingly rare in the United States. The last serious outburst was 1968, with its bloody Democratic-convention riots. By that standard, 2016 is, ...
The Republican Party’s incoherent response to the Supreme Court vacancy is a partisan reflex in search of a justifying principle. The multiplicity of Republican rational...
One wouldn’t call them bedfellows, strange or otherwise, but President Obama and Donald Trump are both inadvertently helping the Islamic State through rhetoric that is e...
We now have an idea of the course of the general election campaign: Class warfare, bitter candidate encounters, nasty ads, obsession with meaningless issues and an outco...
In a welcome move Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its first guidelines for doctors dispensing powerful opioid painkillers. The prescrip...
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn recalls visiting a Texas prison where some inmates taking shop classes could not read tape measures. Cornyn, who was previously a district ...
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas is one of the special ones. Harold M. Ickes, a former deputy chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton, is another. Clinton h...
When Pennsylvanians began paying a higher state gasoline tax and higher fees for vehicle registration, there was some grumbling. But most people accepted the higher cost...
Something unusual happened in late February. Commentators on the right and left, liberal Thom Hartmann and conservative Ike Brannon, published essays on the same day, Fe...
What happened in a congressional committee on Monday has been called a “stunning admission”; a “watershed moment”; and a “milestone.”
The moment between Jeff Miller, the...
