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WASHINGTON — The animal kingdom will have lost one of its staunchest defenders when the Oval Office is abandoned by Barack Obama, who through a series...

TERRACE PARK, Ohio — Sen. Rob Portman probably will win a second term, despite the fact that he deserves to. The swarm of young people who gathered on...

WASHINGTON — Forget the "gig economy" — at least for now. On Labor Day 2016, we are in the midst of a historic transformation of the American job mark...

The prediction was supposed to sound ominous. But to many listeners, it just sounded delicious. “My culture is a very dominant culture, and it’s impos...

Irish poets learn your trade Sing whatever is well made. ... — William Butler Yeats, "Under Ben Bulben" LOS ANGELES — For 67 years, the son of Vincent...

WASHINGTON — Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas, the old saying goes. If so, Donald Trump should be awfully itchy. Trump has just augmented his eve...

Don’t expect a second War on Poverty, regardless of who wins the election. Picking up where Lyndon Johnson left off in the 1960s would seem a logical ...

Donald Trump has warned us about those Mexican rapists. Apparently the country also has body snatchers. The Republican presidential nominee immigrated...

Only the naive have ever believed that democracy is solely a noble contest over competing ideas, proposals and solutions. Emotion looms large in every...

WASHINGTON — Of the 2016 election's lightning storm of shocks, few will have more lasting political consequence than the discrediting of the main medi...

WASHINGTON — Because truth in labeling laws are among the laws from which Washington feels exempt, the titles of congressional legislation often take ...

Mark Burns has done well for himself as a Donald Trump surrogate. The African American pastor, in his Twitter bio, says he “can be seen on CNN, Fox Ne...

I shouldn’t tell you this. Publicity will only make the problem worse. But you deserve to know: Tax cheating is about to rise in the United States. To...

Journalists must walk a fine line every day — a fine line between what is newsworthy and what isn’t. That’s a struggle we all face when we hear white ...

WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump says he has a great relationship with "the Blacks," I wonder if he also gets along well with the Smiths. We know he's t...

WASHINGTON — So far, Donald Trump's outreach to African-Americans has consisted of stereotyping them as impoverished, as attending failed schools and ...

Call it the Snooze Economy. Roughly two months before the presidential election, the economy has turned both boring and mystifying. It hardly impresse...

WASHINGTON — Not since Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign has there been such widespread public disavowal by Republicans of their party's nominee. The Hi...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump. Would that it were unnecessary to mention his name except, say, as a Viagra pitchman. Despite such casting perfection, this...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is undergoing his own "extreme vetting." And we are learning a great deal about the quality of his public pledges. In no par...