It’s as much a springtime tradition in Washington as the White House Easter Egg Roll: As Congress takes up the Defense Department’s budget request, lawmakers scramble to...
Political violence is exceedingly rare in the United States. The last serious outburst was 1968, with its bloody Democratic-convention riots. By that standard, 2016 is, ...
The Republican Party’s incoherent response to the Supreme Court vacancy is a partisan reflex in search of a justifying principle. The multiplicity of Republican rational...
One wouldn’t call them bedfellows, strange or otherwise, but President Obama and Donald Trump are both inadvertently helping the Islamic State through rhetoric that is e...
We now have an idea of the course of the general election campaign: Class warfare, bitter candidate encounters, nasty ads, obsession with meaningless issues and an outco...
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.
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