Watching the parallel paralyses of the British and U.S. governments, it’s easy to see why Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin might think democracies were cooked.
The two great...
It’s hard for presidential candidates not to lapse eventually into self-parody. Beto O’Rourke is breaking the mold by actively seeking it out.
The unsuccessful and now ...
After scolds saw the video of a smirking high school boy wearing a Make America Great Again cap staring down a Native American man banging a ceremonial drum on the steps...
Old conventional wisdom: It can’t happen. Donald Trump cannot be denied the Republican renomination in 2020. New conventional wisdom: Maybe it can.
Even a month ago, it ...
Don’t call Jennifer Siebel Newsom California’s first lady. The wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to be known as the “first partner.”
She debuted the term shortly after the...
In 1976, Gerald Ford won 15 percent of the black vote. That’s the most of any recent Republican presidential candidate. In most elections, blacks give Democrats more tha...
Kansas City’s continued failure to name a street in honor Martin Luther King Jr. is an affront to the slain civil right leader’s legacy nearly 51 years after his death.
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So when and how will the shutdown end? A bit of game theory is in order. Game theory doesn’t usually serve up exact predictions, but it can help us see around corners an...
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrats’ new star in the House of Representatives, suggested that the top marginal tax rate on incomes of more than $10 million shou...
If Donald Trump really wants to remake Washington, he might want to consider an outlandish idea that would upend the traditions surrounding the State of the Union Addres...
