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WASHINGTON — The line between determination and delusion can be obscure. Sometimes, the distinction emerges only in retrospect, like a Polaroid image ...

Fifty years later, it’s hard to imagine the enactment of the Civil Rights Act by today’s polarized Congress. Maybe, as the old saying goes, today’s fi...

BANGUI, Central African Republic — The tents of displaced people reach nearly up to the runway at the airport — the first impression of a nation in fl...

Some random thoughts which have absolutely nothing to do with sports, including the last one, no matter what its proponents say: Let’s start with Good...

WASHINGTON — Here’s a radical notion: It is simultaneously possible to believe that women are entitled to equal pay and to not support the Paycheck Fa...

DETROIT — Robert Griffin, now 90, who rose to be second in the Republican U.S. Senate leadership, was defeated in 1978. Since then, only one Michigan ...

Rain, snow, sun —you’re likely to see all three over the course of a three day period during spring, which can wreak havoc for high school coaches try...

WASHINGTON — In selecting Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman as host of the “Late Show,” CBS has waged war on America’s heartland — or so proc...

So you’re fed up with baseball because of the countless millionaires playing a kid’s game? Flashback 50 years ago when the only game for the wealthy w...

PHOENIX — From the Goldwater Institute, the fertile frontal lobe of the conservative movement’s brain, comes an innovative idea that is gaining tracti...

Congratulations, Kwasi Enin. You’re a 17-year-old Long Island high school student who applied to all eight of the nation’s elite Ivy League universiti...

WASHINGTON — Let’s have a rational discussion about the word “emotional.” But first, I’d better calm down. Maybe I’ll have a soothing cup of herbal te...

WASHINGTON — Supporters of Obamacare are celebrating that the law is not an unmitigated disaster, just a mitigated one. As enrollment closed (for most...

WASHINGTON — After writing close to 3,000 columns, I’ve learned that people sometimes read what they’re looking for, often as a result of a headline, ...

Why does so much of our talk about race and poverty leave us Americans spinning our wheels? One big reason is etiquette. What is said often matters le...

Marv Levy, the Bills’ Hall of Fame coach, was an endless fountain of wisdom via his sayings and historical quotations. And one of his oft-used favorit...

WASHINGTON — Rush Limbaugh can relax. The popular “demon of the right” has been replaced at least through the midterms by the Koch brothers, Charles a...

It’s been a tough 13 days for the Buffalo Bills. It started with the passing of Ralph Wilson, the team’s 95-year-old owner, a week ago Monday. Then, w...

The Final Four. It sounds so terminal. The other day I was wondering why the those NCAA boneheads would eliminate an event that was so wildly popular ...

WASHINGTON — The human kindling that makes up the flammable Republican base may soon burst into flames, again. Portions of that excitable cohort are l...