According to custom, the government and opposition benches in the British House of Commons are separated by a length equivalent to “two swords and one inch.”
The practic...
Talk about an untraditional election!
American presidential races generally match two veteran male politicians. This year, neither likely nominee fits that description.
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This fall, Purdue University undergrads will welcome two things: their parents waving goodbye and their tuition bills frozen for the fourth straight year — with a fifth ...
Prior to the 2012 election, Democrats had a theory: Republicans were in the grip of a “fever” that had led them to oppose and attempt to obstruct President Barack Obama ...
Iraq is collapsing as a country. This week’s bombings in Baghdad, killing more than 90 people, were just one more reminder that the place remains deeply unstable and vio...
What has happened to the GOP — and what should be done about it?
Clearly the party is on the precipice of a disaster. But it’s a precipice familiar in the history of Ame...
It might be helpful for Donald Trump’s handlers to look up and archive all the things their candidate has said on controversial issues for playback purposes.
In 2012, Tr...
Can Americans work longer? Or, are we so broken down by our 60s that extending work life would be cruel?
These questions stalk the debate over Social Security and Medic...
It should be obvious to all by now that Donald Trump knows nothing of what he speaks. His disastrous economic ideas are but the latest in a litany of nonsensical proposa...
Paul Ryan has little choice but to endorse Donald Trump — sooner rather than later. To do otherwise probably would cost him Speakership of the House, and might end his p...
