Opinion & Essay

CLEVELAND — I knew it would be a long night, a brutish assault on one’s cognitive intelligence, when Donald Trump launched his ac ...

Pennsylvania delegates suffering from a Ted Cruz hangover and bleary from too much convention got a wake-up call at their Thursday breakf ...

CLEVELAND — Imagine how Donald Trump’s acolytes would react if Hillary Clinton said that America need not fulfill its NATO duty t ...

CLEVELAND — Tonight, here at the heart of dysfunction junction, Ted Cruz basically told Donald Trump to kiss his rump. There is ...

Mitch McConnell said something important last night. I know that sentence isn’t likely to entertain or titillate — how oft ...

Day two of the Republican National Convention was supposed to be Make America Work Again day. It turned out to be Hillary Cl ...

Day two of the Republican National Convention was supposed to be Make America Work Again day. It turned out to be Hillary Cl ...

CLEVELAND — I get why Republicans are so determined to savage Hillary Clinton, to paint her as the apotheosis of evil. They’re no ...

In honor of the Democratic National Convention, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts this summer is hosting too many Washingtons to coun ...

CLEVELAND – Amidst all the action on the Republican stage last night — Benghazi, B-celebrity speeches, Rudy Giuliani’s scre ...

As a couple of joggers passed me on a sidewalk this morning, I heard one say, “I would sure fire that speechwriter.” I ...

CLEVELAND – At breakfast this morning, Pennsylvania Republican chairman Rob Gleason groused, “The media is digging around on ...

CLEVELAND — So I was walking in a corridor at the Quicken Loans Arena late yesterday afternoon, keeping an ear cocked toward the ambien ...

To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.

What are we to make of “The Taming of the Shrew,” William Shakespeare’s comedic celebration of woman-bashing and submis ...