george w. bush

The call came from Kerry Snow, the former Big 30 All-Star who was a standout quarterback at Otto-Eldred and went on to play at Bucknell in the mid-197...

The 2000 race for the White House came down to a hairbreadth result in a single state, Florida. George W. Bush, the Republican, insisted he had won, c...

Donald Trump took over the Republican Party, but it’s still discernibly the Republican Party. The Republican National Convention was obviously very Tr...

WASHINGTON — President Trump's critics were apoplectic last week when the president referred to MS-13 gang members as "animals." Of course, no one sho...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, the human ruler, as in measuring stick, is at it again, this time grading his performance as president. Appearing on Fox Ne...

The first week of the Trump administration has been a vindication of the American nation-state. Anyone who thought it was a "borderless world," a cate...

SAN DIEGO — As the grandson of a Mexican immigrant — the cadre that Donald Trump labeled criminals and rapists — I was "Never Trump" from the start. A...

THANK YOU: The great-grandson of a Mount Jewett couple received an unexpected “thank you” recently from a very unexpected source. Lorraine Thornton, w...

Why is this inauguration different from any other? Let’s start with the fact that most Americans are not happy that Donald Trump is about to become pr...

WASHINGTON — Who is John Lewis that Donald Trump should be mindful of him? Lewis, by one definition, is a 76-year-old, liberal politician with a distu...

WASHINGTON — Were Donald Trump to read all the previous inaugural addresses in preparation for his big day, it would be pretty tough going from James ...

WASHINGTON —First, a history refresher: For the past nine years, a smattering of Americans, most recently led by our now president-elect, have insiste...

WASHINGTON — One of the more salutary outcomes of the recent election is that Democrats are finally beginning to question the wisdom of basing their f...

Our country needs a new era of bipartisanship — but not the kind you are probably thinking of, and not, I fear, the kind we are likely to get. A week ...

RESCUED: New York State Police saved an unexpected creature at the scene of an industrial fire. To get you up to speed if you’re not already, a fire b...

WASHINGTON — Though Republican prospects are not quite dead, the autopsy has already begun. Which is probably not a good idea, even in metaphor. But t...