You don’t have to think Donald Trump should be elected president to think those having at some of his supporters are sometimes just plain out of it.
To be sure, they wer...
In the past two weeks, the “war on police” has gone from a metaphor to a reality, with eight officers killed in targeted attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
The country h...
National party conventions, which long ago ceded the job of choosing presidential nominees to the primaries and caucuses, have two remaining jobs.
The first one is publi...
BRUSSELS — The terrorist who decimated a holiday crowd in Nice on Bastille Day was the latest incarnation of the nightmare confronting police in Brussels, Paris, Toulous...
Donald Trump has selected the perfect non-Trump as his running mate.
Mike Pence, the phlegmatic Republican governor of Indiana, has strong credentials with the social r...
Nice, France. Of all places.
But of course a terrorist in love with death would choose one of the world’s most beautiful coastal cities to mow down innocents in a moment...
What now — now that speeches have been said, prayers prayed, and politicians have paid respect?
These have been days of intense collective pain, the affliction of a stra...
I watched Paul Ryan’s town hall on CNN this week for a number of reasons, not the least of which is my slight — OK, significant — crush on the House speaker.
Beyond tha...
“The most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War,” President Obama called it. A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but it was stil...
President Barack Obama’s eulogy for five Dallas police officers on Tuesday was an eloquent plea to Americans to acquire “a new heart” — a new empathy toward others acros...
