opinion

WASHINGTON — There is no equivalence — none — between the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton when it comes to mistreatment of and contempt ...

PHILADELPHIA — If political conventions tell us anything beyond the predictable, the one held last week in Cleveland and the other going on this week ...

WASHINGTON — It’s not just native-born Americans expressing nativist sentiments these days. Somehow, it’s immigrants, too. “I think that enough immigr...

The four-day Trump-a-thon, sometimes noted as the Republican National Convention, ended last week in Cleveland, with the Republican party still divide...

PHILADELPHIA — When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, he was greeted with his own camp...

WASHINGTON — With Thomas Hobbes now firmly in charge of Republican messaging — the world is a dark, Darwinian bloodbath, unless we turn over power to ...

PHILADELPHIA — En route to fight one of his many duels, French politician Georges Clemenceau bought a one-way train ticket. Was he pessimistic? "Not a...

CLEVELAND — Donald Trump was a man in full Thursday night as he accepted the Republican nomination: Full-throated, full of fury and full of himself: "...

WASHINGTON — Crucial political decisions often concern which bridges to cross and which to burn. Donald Trump's dilemma is that he burns some bridges ...

CHICAGO — There is near-universal agreement that Silicon Valley needs more diversity. Attaining it is usually thought of as a numbers game in which or...

While definitions of the “American Dream” can be as diverse as the people who make up this great nation, there has been a long-held belief that each c...

WASHINGTON — On a national convention stage that includes the kettledrum personalities of Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is m...

CLEVELAND — Ted Cruz, vanquished presidential candidate, coughed up the name of the man who defeated him for the Republican nomination precisely once ...

WASHINGTON — The year's political cliche is that Americans will be choosing this fall between two of the most unpopular presidential candidates in our...

WASHINGTON — Political conventions are echo chambers designed to generate feelings of invincibility, sending forth the party faithful with a spring in...

CLEVELAND — With precious little attention, the Republican Party's attitude toward international trade has officially shifted. Gone is the 2012 platfo...

WASHINGTON — Well, Donald Trump can't tell his wife she's fired. Nor should he. The evident plagiarism in Melania Trump's speech doesn't reflect poorl...

WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's admittedly "ill-advised" remarks about Donald Trump weren't only bad for the justice and her reputation. Th...

WASHINGTON — Nice, France. Of all places. But of course a terrorist in love with death would choose one of the world's most beautiful coastal cities t...

WASHINGTON — Neither the unanimous decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, nor China's rejection of it, was surprising. The timin...