NEW YORK — In thinking about America’s enduring racial divide, I found myself intrigued by some lessons from an unlikely source — Singapore. To help prepare for a trip t...
Many critics of Pope Francis’ stirring encyclical on the environment protested that he is not a scientist, which is true but beside the point.
His call for a global cul...
WASHINGTON — A recent Congressional Budget Office report — “The 2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook” — reminds us that the federal government is slowly becoming an agency for ...
Hate, cruelty, evil - they all arose in the Charleston, S.C., slaying of nine African-American worshippers in a Bible study group. But opposing marvels then arose, namel...
It shouldn’t be a surprise that Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., has taken an unspeakable crime and made it the occasion for an astonishin...
South Carolina has scheduled another debate over the fate of the Confederate battle flag. This time it can’t be allowed to end in an unsatisfying compromise: The flag ha...
WASHINGTON — In a historic moment, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called late Monday for removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the Statehouse grounds.
It was the ...
WASHINGTON — Unspeakable, unimaginable, incomprehensible and unthinkable are the words we’ve heard and used to describe the horrific murders of nine African-Americans as...
WASHINGTON — It’s time for a new strategy in Iraq and Syria. It begins by admitting that the old borders are gone, that a unified Syria or Iraq will never be reconstitut...
President Barack Obama is rarely at a loss for words. But language seemed to fail him Thursday when he spoke about gun violence and the mass shooting that killed nine pe...
