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It happened just as Jeb Bush was about to explain why he thinks conservatives need to stop being perceived as “anti-everything”: Attendees at the Cons...

WASHINGTON — As with everything else here these days, the talk about the Affordable Care Act case before the Supreme Court this week will focus on ide...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court frequently ponders arcane matters. But this week, however, in oral arguments concerning two cases, the justices’ task w...

A few things we all should have learned last week were that the faucet doesn’t always produce fresh clean water, snow packed in a bucket takes forever...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf, who ran last year with the backing of environmental groups, will soon be giving a first glimpse at how his administra...

WASHINGTON — John Boehner looked as if he were a spectator at his own hanging — and in a sense he is. He can defy conservatives by abandoning their fi...

WASHINGTON — When Scott Walker pronounced himself agnostic about President Obama’s patriotism and Christian faith, it must have seemed like a clever f...

The U.S. Forest Service is contributing to the lack of funding for our local schools and townships, causing property taxes to increase and services to...

CHICAGO — The most portentous election of 2014, which gave the worst-governed state its first Republican governor in 12 years, has initiated this cent...

WASHINGTON — Denizens of social media were rankled during Sunday night’s Academy Awards telecast when actor Sean Penn made a crack about Mexican direc...

WASHINGTON — Given the obsession with economic inequality, you might think it’s the main force squeezing the middle class. It isn’t. We have this not ...

WASHINGTON — The most striking thing about interviewing Rula Ghani, the first lady of Afghanistan, may be that the interview is taking place at all. C...

In fairness, we should have learned the first game of the season that the Cameron County girls basketball team had a flair for the dramatic. In that g...

Republicans seem ceaselessly enamored of litmus tests, but the newest one — Do you believe President Obama loves America? — makes birthers seem witty....

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — At a health center here, a young woman is in the recovery room after a cesarean section. A nurse takes the newborn to a tabl...

WASHINGTON — What Rudy Giuliani did last week was stupid. What Scott Walker did ought to disqualify him as a serious presidential contender. As the wo...

“We’re here today because we all understand that in dealing with violent extremism, that we need answers that go beyond a military answer. We need ans...

If Alex Rodriguez can issue a written statement to the New York Yankees then I can also send a heartfelt apology to the 25,000 readers of this fine pu...

WASHINGTON — Channel-surfing the nightly cable news, one is reminded that certitude is the enemy of sanity. On both Fox News and MSNBC, conversation h...

WASHINGTON — Jeb Bush was mere seconds into his speech Wednesday informing the world that he’s his “own man,” and not his brother or his dad, when he ...