opinion

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking...

WASHINGTON — One of the most effective political ads of the season features women repeating the many derogatory statements Donald Trump has made about...

MUSLYUMOVO, Russia (AP) — At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man and the river flowing past his rural family home appear...

Most saw it as a desperate act by a desperate candidate. The New York Times referred to it as “the political equivalent of a student pulling a fire al...

WASHINGTON — In a world where bullying is interpreted as strength, Donald Trump and Bobby Knight would be kings. One of them is testing the propositio...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — When it comes to rhetoric, Plato was right and Aristotle — not so much. Distilled, Aristotle thought rhetoric good for democrac...

Immigrant goes to America, Many hellos in America; Nobody knows in America Puerto Rico's in America! — "West Side Story" WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico, an ...

WASHINGTON — Regarding Donald Trump's insulting, diminishing assertion about Hillary Clinton that she is only succeeding by playing "the woman's card"...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump claims the Republican presidential primary system is "corrupt" and "rigged" against him. If anything, the opposite is true: ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — African-Americans in the South can't get a break when it comes to voting, as history can't deny. After all they've endured through ...

WASHINGTON — Word on the street is that Donald Trump wants to hire a serious campaign team and give some serious policy speeches — 10 months after his...

Several hundred thousand American citizens won’t be voting in presidential primary elections — and it’s not their fault. In Pennsylvania, for example,...

WASHINGTON — Into the overheated, under-informed bathroom wars comes a well-timed intrusion of sanity in the form of a decision by the 4th U.S. Circui...

WASHINGTON — Authoritarianism, always latent in progressivism, is becoming explicit. Progressivism's determination to regulate thought by regulating s...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nirmala pouts when her father fits the prosthetic leg onto her stump and wraps the long straps around her waist. He whispers q...

LUSAKA, Zambia — Mary, who is 24 but looks barely 18, has already experienced more than enough betrayal for any lifetime. Shyly but deliberately, she ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kiev-based photographer for The Associated Press, recalls the confusion and anxiety of the 1986 Chernobyl nucle...

In the age of “Trump-Mania” and “Bernie-Mania," the often ignored and highly underrated Pennsylvania Democratic primary for U.S. senate is a bit playe...

State Representative Martin Causer is right (“Causer Going to Washington to Advocate for Oil, Gas Industry” April 10): natural gas development continu...

"One fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked up the telephone and taken an order for zero-coupon bonds that had brought him a $50,000 comm...