I spent some hours this week trying to prevent a deportation. I wasn’t successful. It happens, the law must be followed and sometimes the clock runs out. I get it, and I...
Can we get real about “tax reform,” the Republican promise to enact deep tax cuts that will spur economic growth? Probably not, but let’s give it a try.
For starters, we...
Sooner or later, and the later the better, the president’s wandering attention will flit, however briefly, to the subject of trade. So, let us try to think about the pro...
Becoming “Facebook official” has meant something to teens, tweens and twenty-somthings for a long time now. But it wasn’t until two weeks ago that it started meaning som...
There’s only one real indicator of victory in Afghanistan, and President Donald Trump skipped past it in his speech Monday night. Victory in this nearly 16-year U.S. war...
You know we’ve reached a point of — something — when a sports announcer named Robert Lee is reassigned from calling a University of Virginia college football game becaus...
Abie Abraham's life story might seem like a paradox to some — a glorious hero, defined by a soul-rending defeat.
But make no mistake. Abraham was an American military he...
There’s a good reason that earmarks have largely become toxic in American politics: they’re a nasty and counterproductive habit that makes it easier for government to be...
On the surface, President Trump’s self-inflicted troubles would seem a harbinger of future Democratic successes. But beyond the headlines, signs abound that the oppositi...
When President Trump announced his decision to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this week, he described it as a bold new strategy to achieve victory in the 16-year-o...
