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The bitter March cold of 2015 gradually warmed, the snow melted, flowers sprang eagerly from the earth, leaves burst from their buds and flourished. A...

WASHINGTON — After the Brussels murders, and the Paris murders, and the San Bernardino murders and dozens of previous, tragic iterations of innocent b...

DEARBORN, Mich. — If Mark Fields' theory is correct, his industry faces novel challenges. His theory about the changing role of driving in Americans' ...

WASHINGTON — Now that Donald Trump has spoken before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group, Americans have...

WASHINGTON — Oh, those hands. Donald Trump holds them out, regards them, waves them for everyone in the gleaming conference room to see. How surreal i...

SAN DIEGO — Congratulations, Marco Rubio. You're free. For one thing, now that your presidential bid has ended, and you've already said you're not run...

WASHINGTON — In a time of brushfire populism, the problem is not the populace, it is the populists who seek to lead it. The two candidates who call th...

“It’s really different from when Tommy was little,” my mother said to me over brunch at a restaurant this past weekend. The statement was made after a...

WASHINGTON — The Republican Party's incoherent response to the Supreme Court vacancy is a partisan reflex in search of a justifying principle. The mul...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's pursuit of a major election-year tax increase has decades of precedent against it: No such tax increase h...

PHOENIX — In a span of about 12 hours, Americans were given definitive evidence that the Republican Party is now in thrall to its most ideologically a...

WASHINGTON — Whatever you think of Donald Trump, his political achievement is enormous, and he deserves the credit. With no background in elected offi...

CHICAGO —Donald Trump, victim of the shutting down of free speech, after he had to cancel a Chicago rally over security concerns. Or should we say: Do...

WASHINGTON — Maybe sometimes, even in this crazy town and in this crazy season, the best policy turns out to be the best politics. In the context of t...

Spring fever. That wonderful, upwelling, bubbling feeling that fills up your soul and lifts your heart. You really don’t notice the deadening effect w...

MIAMI BEACH — One wouldn't call them bedfellows, strange or otherwise, but President Obama and Donald Trump are both inadvertently helping the Islamic...

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn recalls visiting a Texas prison where some inmates taking shop classes could not read tape measures. Cornyn, who was pre...

WASHINGTON — Not that anyone should be surprised that the judicial wars went nuclear even before President Obama chose a Supreme Court nominee, but tw...

WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump continues to surge forward as the most-likely Republican nominee, perfectly sane people are beginning to wonder: "Was the...

WASHINGTON — As he edges closer to winning the Republican nomination, it is possible to discern, at intermittent intervals and in trace amounts, an in...