Opinion & Essay

On this busy barbecuing day, I typically take the time to parse the Declaration of Independence, to admire its concise eloquence, to marv ...

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Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump has started advertising in Pennsylvania, but independent allies of the two sides are beginning t ...

When Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren shared the stump in Ohio the other day, galvanizing the crowd with their centrist-liberal allia ...

Fueled by anger over judicial corruption and runaway spending on last year’s state Supreme Court contests, the movement for merit s ...

To quote poet T. S. Eliot, the House Select Committee on Benghazi finally folded its tent yesterday – “not with a bang, but a ...

What a kick it was yesterday to see the Supreme Court put the kibosh on one of the GOP’s most notorious scams. We all know t ...

Donald Trump’s top guy, Paul Manafort, surfaced yesterday on “Meet the Press” and  ...

The strategy that led to the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union is similar to that of presumptive Republican Presidentia ...

Well, they’ve done it: Defying torrential rain and the predictions of the pundits — including bookmakers caught flat-footed offer ...

With apologies to the climactic song in “Les Miserables,” here are the self-destructive Brits who voted yesterday to exit the ...

John Lewis has long defied business as usual. He braved white hatred in 1960 when he sat at a segregated lunch counter in Nashville. He w ...

Just what was going on, or not going on, in the U.S. senator’s hotel room? And what was that woman doing in there? And who will mak ...