WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn recalls visiting a Texas prison where some inmates taking shop classes could not read tape measures. Cornyn, who was previously a district ...
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas is one of the special ones. Harold M. Ickes, a former deputy chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton, is another. Clinton h...
Something unusual happened in late February. Commentators on the right and left, liberal Thom Hartmann and conservative Ike Brannon, published essays on the same day, Fe...
Donald Trump’s campaign language is disturbing, but not for the reason you might think. There is no doubt that Trump is inciting crowds when he promises to pay legal fee...
Let’s call it what it is. Anyone who deals heroin is likely participating in a homicide. The evidence of that is on our obituary page on an all-too-regular basis.
With t...
The two leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination held a spirited debate over foreign policy last week, and the differences were striking.
Donald Tru...
WASHINGTON — Frequently predicted but never reached, “peak oil” — maximum possible production — has been postponed yet again, this time because of fracking. “Peak Sander...
WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump continues to surge forward as the most-likely Republican nominee, perfectly sane people are beginning to wonder: “Was there something we mis...
NEW YORK — The energy fueling the presidential campaign — on both sides of the political spectrum — seems to be a deep despair about the American economy. On this centra...
Do Republicans Need a Fusion Ticket?
Super Tuesday the singular evolved into “Super Tuesdays” the plural, even coming to be called Super One, Super Two, etc. By this met...
