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What has happened to the GOP — and what should be done about it? Clearly the party is on the precipice of a disaster. But it’s a precipice familiar in...

WASHINGTON — One of the chief policy mysteries of Donald Trump's campaign platform is how he intends to achieve the arithmetically impossible: reduce ...

WASHINGTON — Academia's descent into perpetual hysteria and incipient tyranny is partly fueled by the fiction that one in five college students is sex...

WASHINGTON — In 1906, Leonor Loree, an accomplished railroad executive, examined the dilapidated Kansas City Southern Railroad that he had been hired ...

Can Americans work longer? Or are we so broken down by our 60s that extending work life would be cruel? These questions stalk the debate over Social S...

WASHINGTON — It should be obvious to all by now that Donald Trump knows nothing of what he speaks. His disastrous economic ideas are but the latest in...

My fellow Republicans, my fellow Americans: I stand before you today with a heavy heart, to say that I cannot in good conscience support the man my pa...

WASHINGTON — It wasn't precisely an act of moral courage, but House Speaker Paul Ryan's comment that he's not ready to support presumptive presidentia...

WASHINGTON — The great Republican crackup has begun. There is a growing group of Donald Trump partisans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich,...

WASHINGTON — Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, would be the first to acknowledge that she is the world's least-typical single ...

Donald Trump: "We've got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt." Washington Post: "How long would that take?" Trump: "I would say over a period of ei...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Roddy Biggs was 13 and depressed, and had been seeing a therapist for six months before he revealed something he had denied ev...

DHARAMSALA, India — When posed a policy question, the Dalai Lama is surprisingly (for a religious leader) un-prone to moralism. What, I asked him, doe...

My neighborhood of Chevy Chase is a leafy and peaceful slice of Northwest Washington. But this week, the news here is of a woman assaulted outside the...

WASHINGTON — Gigantic government's complexity and opacity provide innumerable opportunities for opportunists to act unconstrained by clear law or effe...

Joe Sestak, a liberal Democrat with a commitment to social and economic justice, is a slow learner. It’s isn’t because he’s dumb — he graduated second...

WASHINGTON — When Shakespeare wrote the "truth will out," he must have had Ted Cruz in mind. Cruz's truth — or his true self — has been leaking by ste...

WASHINGTON — Now that the contours of the general election are reasonably predictable, it is time to start thinking about the tripartite institutional...

BOSTON — “When you become famous,” the famous political consultant James Carville once said, “being famous becomes your profession.” It’s a sign of th...

WASHINGTON — The 2016 presidential race already counts an extraordinary accomplishment: It has made the 2000 election seem like the good old days. Bef...