Many undergraduates, their fawnlike eyes wide with astonishment, are wondering: Why didn’t the dean of students prevent the election from disrupting the serenity to whic...
Sometimes it takes a foreigner who is fighting for democracy to remind Americans of how much we take our system for granted. Such a wake-up call is particularly useful w...
The Oct. 24 editorial (“A useless, discriminatory bill outlawing Sharia law”) rejects state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe’s proposal to ban Islamic and other foreign laws from Pen...
Elections regularly inspire an orgy of hype — and so it is with this one. The Democrats are in disarray, it’s said. Unless they’re enormously skillful or lucky, they ris...
Over the next few months Republicans are expected to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act.
How this plays out is unknown becau...
There are legions of arguments for why America is not ready for Republican President-elect Donald Trump. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Democratic tea...
It’s still to be determined how much impact, if any, the FBI’s unprecedented last-minute actions had on Hillary Clinton’s performance with presidential election voters, ...
At long last, what felt like the longest presidential campaign in U.S. history is finally over. No matter which side of the election we were on, though, what comes next ...
Witnesses to Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s post-election get-together can’t have missed the change in the president-elect’s demeanor and affect. Quiet and reserved, he...
Donald Trump, it seems, embraces the old dictum: Make no small plans. Already, he’s published an agenda for his first 100 days in office, recalling Franklin Roosevelt’s ...
