Editorial

Choosing statewide judges: Going from bad to good enough Theory and practice are often at odds — no more so perhaps than in American government. In cl...

WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was born in 1970, six years after events refuted a theory on which he is wagering his candidacy. The 1964 theory was ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Maine celebrates its Whoopie pies. North Carolinians proudly dance their Shag. In Kansas, even dirt is official: Harney silt loam...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ideas fly from Gov. John Kasich like sparks from a flint. While explaining his prison reforms, he interrupts himself midsentence — hi...

SAN DIEGO — President Obama and his administration still play games with the immigration issue — and, consequently, with people’s lives. When handling...

Indecision may not be the best quality in a columnist, but in the case of NBC News anchor Brian Williams, that’s what I find in myself: I doubt that t...

WASHINGTON — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took his presidential campaign-in-waiting to Washington on Monday trailed by an unwelcome, unsavory and downr...

WASHINGTON — These are tough times for NBC’s Brian Williams —and tougher times for journalism. The NBC newsman is off the air while the network is “ga...

WASHINGTON — The measles outbreak at California’s Disneyland — which has spread like pixie dust — along with several other smaller flare-ups, has heal...

I have been extremely fortunate to spend almost my entire career working in rural, largely farming communities. Just about every day, a student, paren...

WASHINGTON — Any Republican event convened by Rep. Steven King — he of “calves the size of cantaloupes” fame — could easily have degenerated into a fe...

Much chatter amid even more controversy has met the news that Mitt Romney may be running again for president. Whether he should or shouldn’t, whether ...

WASHINGTON — This is a tale of two policies promoted by President Obama: one to make community college free, the other to provide for paid sick leave ...

WASHINGTON — Forget E.F. Hutton. It’s P.F. (Pope Francis) these days who, when he talks, people listen. And then they get busy trying to figure out wh...

Elections always leave some unfinished business. Tom Wolf’s historic win over incumbent Tom Corbett is no exception.Why Wolf won has been discussed wi...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis’ American honeymoon is over (though the whole idea of a papal honeymoon smacks of Borgia-era excess). At first, some politic...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s coming request for Congress to “right-size and update” the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against terroris...

WASHINGTON — Post-election analysis falls somewhere between amusing and clueless. In the amusing camp are Democratic strategists who intone that more ...

Thirty-six states choose governors in the November elections. Winning one of these races can take years of paying political dues and a grueling nomina...

WASHINGTON — What we are witnessing in the spreading turmoil around the world — in Iraq, in Ukraine, in Gaza — is the silent rejection of a central te...