Think of it as a new draft notice in the war against drugs. We’ve gotten used to reading about heroin, fentanyl and opioid overdoses. Now there’s a new villain: syntheti...
This column isn’t really about Texas. But a U.S. Senate race in my home state is assuming an instructive pattern for other congressional and gubernatorial races. It pits...
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
Louis D. Brandeis wrote his often-quoted line about the power and necessity of transparency in 1913, three years befo...
This is a column about listening.
It’s about the millions of people in this country who feel that no one cares what they think or values what they do. People who believe...
A judicial process that doesn’t allow the accused to cross-examine his accuser or reliably see the evidence against him is a civil libertarian’s nightmare. It traduces e...
This is not news — and it is nothing against the man, Sen. John McCain — but The New York Times obit on McCain, written by Robert D. McFadden, inadvertently serves as a ...
Tuesday’s primaries in Florida and Arizona, along with runoffs in Oklahoma, were among the most interesting of the cycle. Some highlights:
TRUMP HAS A GOOD NIGHT
The pre...
When the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994, it was widely regarded — by friend and foe alike — as an ambitious experiment in economic engineering. ...
There were 72,000 deaths from drug overdoses last year, but let’s talk about something else: about Michael Cohen and his paying off two women in 2016 not to talk about s...
The Immigration and Nationality Act mandates that all immigrants and refugees undergo a medical screening examination to determine whether they have an inadmissible heal...
