For those of us who opposed Donald Trump, the response to Tuesday’s vote could be anger or honest reflection. I’m not by nature an angry person, so I will try the latter...
In the course of about six hours, what was supposed to be a Republican existential crisis turned into a Republican wave.
What was supposed to be a victory of the coaliti...
President-elect Donald Trump faces a full international inbox.
Awaiting the 45th president are multiple Mideast crises and concurrent crises in confidence among allies i...
Historians instruct journalists that the great events they witness are rarely as momentous as they first appear once seen in the sweep of history.
If there was ever a ti...
The Republican nominee for president is a racist, sexist threat to American democracy — and this time, we really mean it.
In a nutshell, this is the Democratic argument...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is on a tear. In just the past three weeks, he has expressed a desire to separate his country from the United States, declared his i...
Imagine sitting around the dinner table on Monday, Sept. 10, 2001, hypothesizing whether America’s military could fight a two-front war for 15-plus years with just an al...
Think again if you believe the immediate post-election period will bring relief from the political turmoil that has plagued the nation as seldom before. Whoever wins — H...
We’ve all heard about October surprises, which in this unpredictable election year have melded into a November surprise, too, courtesy of FBI director James Comey’s runn...
When Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination in June, one of my Facebook friends posted that, in the name of history and feminism, it behooved us to admit Hil...