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WASHINGTON — As Archie Bunker might say, the world is going down the terlet. And how. Who could have predicted that politics would require serious dis...

WASHINGTON — The 2016 presidential election is shaping up as an unpopularity contest of unprecedented proportions. Assuming, as now appears most likel...

WASHINGTON — The presidential race recently turned to talk of favorite Bible verses. Mine (for what it is worth) is found in the parable of the prodig...

WASHINGTON — As the human circus of presidential politics has plodded along for what seems a decade now, a revolution has been taking place in the eve...

WASHINGTON — Is the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders more like 2008 or 1980? In other words, more like the contest between Cl...

WASHINGTON — When President Obama departs for Saudi Arabia, an incubator of the 9/11 attacks, he will leave behind a dispute about government secrecy....

WASHINGTON — Welcome to Donald Trump's banana republic. "We're going to have protests, demonstrations," says Trump surrogate and confidante Roger Ston...

On the day that Paul Ryan said he really, truly, honestly did not want to be the Republicans’ presidential savior, John Kasich did his best to channel...

EASTON, Md. — It's been a long while since South Carolina could look down upon its neighbor to the North. Thanks to North Carolina's anti-LGBT legisla...

WASHINGTON — There is a consensus that aggression by one nation against another is a serious matter, but there is no comparable consensus about what c...

Some forty states have already voted in the presidential primary. Finally, the presidential nomination campaigns move to the Northeast. New York votes...

WASHINGTON — Politicians like to bet that reporters and their pesky questions will go away. Too often, they're right. Thus, the drumbeat of demands fo...

WASHINGTON — Some Trump-obsessed, hysterical nitwits have overstated the case that the Republican Party may be on the verge of self-annihilation. "If ...

We have all seen the headlines. It seems each day we read yet another story about a tragic death due to heroin or opioid drugs. Hospital emergency dep...

WASHINGTON — Imagine emerging from a rocky political week only to announce, as Bernie Sanders did, that, oh, by the way, the Vatican called. Actually,...

PRINCETON, N.J. — One of history's most important battles happened here on a field you can walk across in less than half the 45 or so minutes the batt...

BEIRUT (AP) — Mohammed Khous was walking from the field hospital heading for his son's house nearby to rest between operations. He would never make it...

It will not be the first time that a Clinton relies on the tough-minded voters of New York to salvage a front-running presidential candidacy. On March...

WASHINGTON — "What we are seeing is post-purchase cognitive dissonance," a well-connected former Democratic official told me. Hillary Clinton has effe...

The voters have spoken: Never Trump. Wisconsin Republicans sent the nation a clear message Tuesday night in the drubbing they dealt the bilious billio...