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WASHINGTON — On April 4, 1968 — the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed by a sniper — Robert Kennedy gave (arguably) one of the greatest A...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — "Pink Lives Matter" and "I can't breathe," the Mardi Gras parade float proclaimed as it rolled through Louisiana's capital cit...

WASHINGTON -- Horror. Shock. Disbelief. Numbness. Grief. Anger. And terrible sadness. These fractured thoughts were all I could muster upon waking Fri...

NEW YORK (AP) — Can this really be America in 2016? Three tumultuous days have brought echoes of decades past and made clear a public that elected a b...

The haunting U2 lyric,“I still haven’t found what I’m looking for,” captures what many Americans seem to feel about politics in 2016. And a lot of us ...

Granddad, Pop, was a unique man with a wide circle of friends who literally drug himself up by his bootstraps as a young man. He left home, immediate ...

Three weeks before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Hillary Rodham Clinton unloaded heavy baggage. In an extremely rare news confer...

WASHINGTON — "The most amazing thing about the 2016 elections," Roger Porter of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government told me, "is that we are likely...

WASHINGTON — The report was so "seismic" — Daniel Patrick Moynihan's word — that Lyndon Johnson's administration released it on the Fourth of July wee...

WASHINGTON — Perusing the wires on a deadline morn, I was struck by a constellation of intellectuals struggling to translate the relative meanings of ...

The culture wars are getting very, very expensive. Once upon a time, politicians could use wedge issues to score cheap political points, emphasis on “...

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials tend to inhabit a universe that is both binary and terse: Prosecute or don't prosecute. Let the facts in the in...

WASHINGTON — The progressive drive to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political "corruption" has corrupted politics. But discord is not altoge...

WASHINGTON — But of course Bill Clinton wants his wife to become president of the United States and make history as the nation's first female commande...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly every day, somewhere in the country, the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-staff last year in one of the most significant o...

WASHINGTON — When awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush in 2007, Dr. Oscar Biscet had a scheduling conflict, being in a Cuban pr...

What matters in a presidential election, and what will matter in the 2016 election? This simple question has produced a virtual cornucopia of theories...

Compared to their inaction on other agenda items, the U.S. Senate is brilliant. The one issue it had success was to block President Obama’s immigratio...

Man, it was with a thrill of excitement that I took down my favorite bass rod and balanced it in my hand. A thousand memories flashed through my mind,...

"See that little stream? We could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in ...