WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration's inability to defend the defensible is simply mind-numbing. Even when the president is doing the right…
WASHINGTON -- My wife and I took our kids on a civil rights tour of the South over spring break, a trip planned before we knew it would be the…
Mostly missing from the moving and deserved tributes to Sen. John McCain was attention to McCain's gift for self-deprecating humor. When a Gal…
CHICAGO -- Finally, some good news for brown and black students: A record number of them took Advanced Placement (AP) computer-science exams a…
Is it any of Canada's business whether Saudi women have the right to drive?
CHICAGO -- Listen in on any parent-teacher conference and you'll hear teachers asking, "What is your most pressing concern for your child?" Ni…
WASHINGTON -- How do democratic countries get to the point where they give up on self-rule? Under what circumstances do demagogues capture lar…
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CHICAGO -- Everything old eventually becomes new again, and the call to end birthright citizenship is no exception.
"Imagine the earth beneath you opening up and swallowing you whole. Imagine feeling everything good inside you -- love, joy, kindness, trust, …
Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have "never been worse."
WASHINGTON -- It is difficult to imagine any Republican senator opposing President Trump's nomination to the Supreme Court of Brett M. Kavanau…
Twice in the past week Iowa Democrats got to see their half-dozen candidates for governor debate on television.
The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner needs to go the way of the typewriter.
The Republican Party wants us to grade Donald Trump on a curve.
DU QUOIN, Illinois -- Here, in one of the many small towns dotting the southernmost tip of Illinois, what can only be described as rural decay…
WASHINGTON -- Britain's election was a catastrophe for Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and a personal vindication for Jeremy Corbyn, t…
"I'll never lie to you."-- Jimmy Carter, the 1976 presidential campaign.
WASHINGTON -- As it turns out, Donald Trump is the hope-and-change president.
Without Virginia, we probably never would have become the United States.
WASHINGTON -- There will be much for special counsel Robert Mueller to unpack after last week's momentous testimony of James Comey: Did Presid…
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WASHINGTON -- Having coined Bush Derangement Syndrome more than a decade ago, I feel authorized to weigh in on its most recent offshoot. What …
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Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, "We had no relationship at all. ... I never …
WASHINGTON -- Beginning this week, Washington hopes that infrastructure, which is a product of civil engineering, will be much discussed. But …
CHICAGO -- In the wake of the deadly London attacks, Facebook made yet another statement in which it reaffirmed its desire to be a force for g…
WASHINGTON -- "If only he would stop tweeting."
CHICAGO -- It is often said that Hispanics suffer from fatalism -- the belief that whatever happens to them is inevitable. But far less often …