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What matters in a presidential election, and what will matter in the 2016 election? This simple question has produced a virtual cornucopia of theories...

Compared to their inaction on other agenda items, the U.S. Senate is brilliant. The one issue it had success was to block President Obama’s immigratio...

"See that little stream? We could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in ...

WASHINGTON — Watching Hillary Clinton beaming sidewise on stage as Elizabeth Warren taunted Donald Trump brought the Wrigley twin ditty to mind: Doubl...

After more than four years of fighting efforts by bureaucrats at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to circumvent the Legislature and re...

WASHINGTON — In his resignation speech following Great Britain's vote to divorce from the European Union, Prime Minister David Cameron claimed several...

WASHINGTON — How do you write a platform for a party whose candidate's positions span the unfortunate gamut from nonexistent to offensive to flatly at...

WASHINGTON — With Britain's vote to leave the European Union, did Donald Trump just win the presidential election? On the surface, this may seem an od...

HARRISBURG (AP) — It's the big head-scratcher in the Pennsylvania Capitol. House Democrats this month helped pass bills that advanced a couple long-so...

WASHINGTON — The Leave campaign won the referendum on withdrawing Britain from the European Union because the arguments on which the Remain side relie...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Britain's vote to leave the European Union adds a heavy dose of uncertainty to a world economy that is still struggling to r...

Where religion is concerned, Donald Trump’s bigotry is his biggest problem, but his ignorance comes in a close second. We already know that Trump will...

WASHINGTON — Oh God — and I mean the entreaty seriously — the Trump/evangelical summit in New York was just as bad as some of us feared. More than 900...

You can add health care to the causes of growing wage inequality in America. There’s a largely unknown paradox at work. Companies that try to provide ...

"There's an old adage about a vat of wine standing next to a vat of sewage. Add a cup of wine to the sewage, and it is still sewage. But add a cup of ...

If Donald Trump should become president, don’t expect his administration to be a transparent one or one that tolerates dissent and believes in the Fir...

WASHINGTON — If you turned on cable TV news Monday, chances are good that you caught Corey Lewandowski fibbing that he doesn't have a clue why Donald ...

WASHINGTON — When it comes to the chaotic, flailing, floundering Trump campaign, many senior Republicans are in a state of panic. Will this become a s...

WASHINGTON — Along came the alligator. A horrifying story at the end of a horrifying stretch, a heartbreaking coda befitting a nation on perpetual edg...

WASHINGTON — The arguments for and against gun control are so familiar by now, we might as well hit replay and skip the debate. In the wake of the hor...