If you closed your eyes and listened to the words emanating from President Trump’s meetings in Europe last week — instead of, say, reading his tweets — it sounded as if ...
Lyndon Johnson could be vulgar to the extreme, giving interviews while sitting on the toilet with the door open, pulling up dogs by their ears, exposing his stomach to s...
Some Americans believe voter fraud is essentially a non-issue. They insist voting irregularities seldom occur and are almost always accidental.
Hard evidence, however, p...
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling effectively allowing the Washington Redskins to keep their trademark name even though many consider the term “redskins...
As U.S. Senate Republicans finalize their health care reform bill, a key member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet is making a deceptive argument to gin up support for ...
Were it not for the provision that Pat Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican, put into the Senate’s proposed health care reform, this legislation would be moderately impor...
As President Donald Trump maneuvers through fast-paced meetings with fellow world leaders in Europe, the most urgent matter before him is how to address a growing threat...
With his penchant for tweeted insults and GIFs, Donald Trump will never be mistaken for a master of the sweet art of persuasion. Yet he is clearly winning the public arg...
The Bronx, the only one of New York City’s five boroughs that is on the American mainland, once had a sociological as well as geographical distinction. In the 1930s it w...
As the nation was preparing to celebrate its storied independence from the British crown, the president secured his place as history’s greatest jester.
Or America’s firs...