Buried in the excitement around this week’s primary elections is an under-appreciated milestone: For the first time in American history, a woman is now a major party’s p...
The fervor of election years often serves to divide the public along political lines. Lost in the heat of the moment is the recognition most issues are not inherently De...
This year, the youngest draftees who invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944 are 90 years old. By now, our cultural understanding of D-Day focuses on the valor of those young m...
It doesn’t require a foreign policy speech by Hillary Clinton to prove that Donald Trump is unfit to be commander in chief.
But Clinton did the country a service last we...
Six years after Obamacare became law, some 30 million Americans still lack health insurance. Louisiana has found a trick to get a great number of them to sign up for Med...
The millennials have surpassed baby boomers to become the country’s largest living generation, according to the Pew Research Center. How does that make you feel? Respons...
WASHINGTON — With the surrender of House Speaker Paul Ryan to the Trump crusade, it is fair to wonder what the Republican Party stands for.
Ryan’s endorsement of Trump, ...
Why don’t normal people run for president? How did we get these candidates? We face, in 2016, the possibility that one of just two American families — the Clintons and t...
As the conflict in Syria has raged and spilled over its borders, I have been skeptical that there is an American military solution to the complex political and religious...
Which presidential candidate said this: “The economy is rigged in favor of those at the top.” Or this: “The banking system is rigged . and that’s why a lot of you haven’...
