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WASHINGTON — Months before the 1940 Republican convention nominated Wendell Willkie, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's waspish daughter,...

The American people know extremism when they see it. This is very unfortunate for Donald Trump. And it is a nightmare for Republican leaders who see m...

No amount of advice, photographs or premonition could have prepared me for driving the rural roads of Western Ireland — or the absolute beauty of the ...

WASHINGTON — Since Thomas Jefferson's concubine, Warren Harding's love nest and Bill Clinton's innovative intern program, Americans have debated the r...

Two questions dominate all others as the fall presidential campaign begins in Pennsylvania. Can the GOP win in Pennsylvania in 2016? If so, how do the...

The U.S. Senate — under the leadership of Mitch McConnell who once said his primary mission was to see that the Senate didn’t agree with anything Pres...

WASHINGTON — Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, knows that no one in the audience is there to hear ...

The massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012 had a profound impact on how I would vote as a member of the U.S. Sen...

WASHINGTON — From Shanghai to Paris to Moscow, the world has been watching to see how the U.S. election is affected by the latest terrorist bloodbath ...

WASHINGTON — It was inevitable that we would one day seek ways to kill ourselves with society's blessing. California recently joined four other states...

WASHINGTON — One of the manifold tragedies of the Orlando mass murder is how difficult it is for us to experience it and mourn it together. This killi...

WASHINGTON — Somehow, it's always the parents' fault. We are too lax, except when we are too helicoptery. We coddle the kids too much, except when we ...

LONDON — Of the fighting faiths that flourished during the ideologically drunk 20th century, anti-Semitism has been uniquely durable. It survives by m...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Well before police could establish who was responsible for a car bombing in Istanbul that killed 11 this week, the government in Turke...

Suppose you are advising Hillary Clinton, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. What worries you? Well, probably the stubbornness of S...

WASHINGTON — Why such vehemence among Republican leaders in their condemnations of Donald Trump for questioning the objectivity of a federal judge bas...

Just three weeks remain in the state’s fiscal year, and with the memory of the fiscal year 2015-16 state budget impasse still fresh in everyone’s mind...

A Facebook video of a woman wearing a Chewbacca mask and laughing almost hysterically in her car has drawn more than 140 million hits from numerous so...

ORLANDO — Standing on my hotel balcony in the predawn hours, I gaze out over several dimly illuminated swimming pools abutting a small manmade lake an...

WASHINGTON — The Caligulan malice with which Donald Trump administered Paul Ryan's degradation is an object lesson in the price of abject capitulation...