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WASHINGTON — If there is any unifying theme in our degraded political discourse, it is the belief that the other ideological side is mainly responsibl...

"The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution." — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78. WASHINGTO...

WASHINGTON — With the surrender of House Speaker Paul Ryan to the Trump crusade, it is fair to wonder what the Republican Party stands for. Ryan's end...

LONDON — Misery loves company, so refugees from America's Republican Party should understand that theirs is not the only party that has chosen a leade...

How would you feel if somebody moved into your house, sectioned-off half of your rooms and refused to pay rent? Then he welcomed his friends, took ove...

WASHINGTON — On June 21, Donald Trump will meet with nearly 500 prominent evangelicals who are trying to get more comfortable with the idea of support...

Billionaire ex-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg flirted with one. Mitt Romney still wants one, as does Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, influentia...

LONDON —Sitting on the sun-dappled terrace of the House of Lords, watching the Thames flow, Lord Nigel Lawson explains that the June 23 referendum, wh...

OXFORD, Md. — It was such a marvelous idea: The United States of America. Obviously, we've never really pulled it all together under one hat, but it h...

TWO EGG, Fla. (AP) — What came first, the Chicken or the Egg — or make that the Two Egg? The answer is the Alaska town of Chicken came before the Flor...

CHICAGO — It is often said that the problem with immigrants is that they're poor and contribute only their cheap labor when they get here. But rarely ...

WASHINGTON — As Barack Obama's presidency takes a backseat to the psychodrama known as the 2016 election, historians, speculators and revisionists are...

A few million Americans may be thinking about it, but won’t be celebrating Memorial Day. For them, there’s not much to celebrate or to remember. They’...

To those families of servicemen and women who have paid the ultimate price in defending our freedom, our heartfelt sympathy and unending gratitude. Th...

Given that Upper Allegheny Health System and Kaleida Health have already partnered on initiatives to enhance health care services for the Twin Tiers, ...

On Tuesday night, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump disparaged New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, probably the most prominent His...

WASHINGTON — Want a good measure of how degraded the presidential foreign policy debate has become? Over the last four years, America has largely been...

WASHINGTON — Here's the irony of Donald Trump's "America First," immigrant-bashing, free-trade-averse, make-us-great-again nationalism: It is a Europe...

LONDON — Sixty-five years ago, what has become the European Union was an embryo conceived in fear. It has been stealthily advanced from an economic to...

WASHINGTON — If Donald Trump prefers combatants who aren't captured, as he once mocked John McCain, he apparently doesn't believe in taking prisoners,...