Back in 2008, in the weeks leading up to the Obama-McCain presidential election, two young men visited me in Denver. They were from Catholics United, a group describing ...
Politics is an enduring feature of human life, but political parties are mortal. This week we watched the beginning of the end of one of America’s great, illustrious par...
The sorry saga of the Republican Party’s fitful embrace of Donald Trump can best be told by borrowing an old template originally shaped by a faraway Protestant pastor wh...
This shouldn’t take 120 days. Compared to other problems on the Pennsylvania Legislature’s agenda, fixing the constitutional flaw in a casino revenue-sharing law should ...
Donald Trump is unshackled as well as unhinged. The tattletales on both sides of the political divide are uninhibited. Informative political discussion has been undone. ...
It should surprise no one that this presidential election — the first ever to involve a female nominee from a major party in the top spot — has devolved into a contest o...
Less than a month before the election, the Republican speaker of the House says he won’t defend or campaign with his party’s presidential nominee.
The nominee has respo...
It’s a good thing Mike Pence has a conscience because he’s going to need it as he struggles with what to do next as Donald Trump’s running mate, including whether he sho...
Voters who wondered just how low Donald Trump would go in his race against Hillary Clinton got their answer on Sunday night.
From the run-up to the debate — in which Tru...
A reactionary is someone who wishes to return, usually unrealistically, to an earlier and more appealing era. We have two reactionaries running for president. Both peddl...
