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The latest police shooting to roil Chicago was all too familiar — and not because it fits the poisonous narrative of rampant police racism alleged by Black Lives Matter....

Nothing better symbolizes the depressing foreign policy year of 2015 than the bromance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. “Bromance,” in case you aren’t up on the ...

Since Congress created the first inspectors general for federal agencies in 1978, these in-house watchdogs have proved their worth again and again. Inspectors general ha...

It’s scarcely all bad, of course. Look inside America and you see plenty of good, but there is another side of us, the disintegrating side. In frightening developments,...

E.B. White reportedly said “the most beautiful sound in America” is “the tinkle of ice at twilight.” In 2015’s twilight, fortify yourself with something 90 proof as you ...

We should be glad that 2015 is passing into memory, because it was a year when we could barely hold it together. It was a year when we freaked out over symbols and scare...

It’s the end of the year, when newspaper columnists are supposed to fill in the blank — “2015 was the year of ————” — and decide whether the phenomenon in question falls...

WASHINGTON — The call left on my answering machine was unnerving to say the least. The caller identified himself as an Internal Revenue Service agent, complete with a ba...

President Obama had a pretty good 2015 by most measures. The economy grew and unemployment fell. He achieved a long-sought nuclear deal with Iran, a long-sought trade de...

WASHINGTON — If you look beyond Donald Trump’s comprehensive unpleasantness — is there a disagreeable human trait he does not have? — you might see this: He is a fundame...