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The Republican Party came to life as the bastion of "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men." It was a reformist party dedicated to stopping the...

Donald Trump's selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate is just what everyone is saying it is: a safe, traditional choice. Pence won't...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast majority of Americans say they are afraid of at least one of the two major candidates — Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — w...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The stories have been circulating in Israel for decades: Newborn babies and young children of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries m...

NEW YORK — By now most Americans know the name of Dallas Police Chief David Brown — and quite a few wouldn't mind seeing him play a larger national ro...

WASHINGTON — On April 4, 1968 — the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed by a sniper — Robert Kennedy gave (arguably) one of the greatest A...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — "Pink Lives Matter" and "I can't breathe," the Mardi Gras parade float proclaimed as it rolled through Louisiana's capital cit...

WASHINGTON -- Horror. Shock. Disbelief. Numbness. Grief. Anger. And terrible sadness. These fractured thoughts were all I could muster upon waking Fri...

NEW YORK (AP) — Can this really be America in 2016? Three tumultuous days have brought echoes of decades past and made clear a public that elected a b...

The haunting U2 lyric,“I still haven’t found what I’m looking for,” captures what many Americans seem to feel about politics in 2016. And a lot of us ...

Three weeks before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Hillary Rodham Clinton unloaded heavy baggage. In an extremely rare news confer...

WASHINGTON — "The most amazing thing about the 2016 elections," Roger Porter of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government told me, "is that we are likely...

WASHINGTON — The report was so "seismic" — Daniel Patrick Moynihan's word — that Lyndon Johnson's administration released it on the Fourth of July wee...

WASHINGTON — Perusing the wires on a deadline morn, I was struck by a constellation of intellectuals struggling to translate the relative meanings of ...

The culture wars are getting very, very expensive. Once upon a time, politicians could use wedge issues to score cheap political points, emphasis on “...

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials tend to inhabit a universe that is both binary and terse: Prosecute or don't prosecute. Let the facts in the in...

WASHINGTON — The progressive drive to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political "corruption" has corrupted politics. But discord is not altoge...

WASHINGTON — But of course Bill Clinton wants his wife to become president of the United States and make history as the nation's first female commande...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly every day, somewhere in the country, the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-staff last year in one of the most significant o...

WASHINGTON — When awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush in 2007, Dr. Oscar Biscet had a scheduling conflict, being in a Cuban pr...