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WASHINGTON — Every couple of years or so, I feel the need to whine about the plight of newspapers. It's August. I'm Trumped out. So today's the day. E...

WASHINGTON — One of the most unintentionally revealing moments of Hillary Clinton's campaign so far came during her recent, unconvincing explanation o...

WASHINGTON — Two years ago, Karl Rove caused a stir when he planted a seed that Hillary Clinton might have suffered brain damage from a fall. My, how ...

WASHINGTON — Like shipwrecked mariners clinging to a floating mast, many Republicans rationalize supporting Donald Trump because of "the court." This ...

Like most Jews, Benjamin Aaron Shapiro, a respected journalist, is an advocate for social justice, following the Jewish concept of Tikun Olam , litera...

“What does this say about your party that this is your standard-bearer?” The headlines from President Obama’s excoriation of Donald Trump on Tuesday r...

If you had to get a loan to pay your bills, would you say your family budget is balanced? Or even consider yourself in good financial shape? Sadly, th...

WASHINGTON — Of all the dangerous things that Donald Trump has said, perhaps the most concerning is his assertion that the election might be rigged. T...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump began August 2, 2016, no doubt, determined to follow the advice of family and advisers to avoid fueling his own controversie...

WASHINGTON — No one would mistake Roger Ailes for a ladies man, at least not without a fistful of dollars — or a garter belt. So emerges a fresh image...

WASHINGTON — In the 1870s, when Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall controlled New York City, and in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chicago's Democratic machine was ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Every nation has sacred places, where history has stopped and lingered, and visitors are hushed by memories of redemptive sacrifice. ...

Historically Americans have complained that elections offer little real choice between presidential candidates or policies. Democrats and Republicans ...

PHILADELPHIA — A longtime Republican friend texted just as the Democratic National Convention was burying itself in balloons: "I'm sorry," she said, "...

PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Convention here was Broadway to the summer stock production that Republicans put on in Cleveland. The Democrats...

Say this for the Democratic Party: They put on a great show. Maybe there’s something to their unabashed affiliation with 95 or more percent of Hollywo...

WASHINGTON — To gauge the opportunism and hypocrisy that define Donald Trump's Republican Party, consider this: Imagine the scalding rhetoric that wou...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton's convention week featured two of the most effective communicators in the Democratic Party offering different images of t...

Hillary Rodham Clinton limped into the Democratic National Convention with enough pledged delegates to claim the Democrats’ nomination for the preside...

NEW YORK (AP) — The relentless series of mass killings across the globe poses a challenge for experts trying to analyze them without lapsing into faul...