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When the presidential primaries began more than a year ago, the two leading candidates were Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democrats and Jeb Bush for ...

FLORENCE, S.C. — If Donald Trump speaks for disenfranchised whites, Hillary Clinton speaks mostly to blacks who feel the same. But the differences in ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's distinctive rhetorical style — think of a drunk with a bullhorn reading aloud James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" under water —...

Political uncertainty isn't the only threat to the Affordable Care Act's future. Cracks also are spreading through a major pillar supporting the law H...

As the budget stalemate continues in Harrisburg, I know the hard-working constituents who reside in my Senatorial District are growing frustrated with...

Sometimes you discover you’ve locked a few feelings away, and they’ll creep up so that you have to deal with them. This week, news of the release of J...

WASHINGTON — The main focus of Donald Trump's media coverage has been his populist disdain for elites. But his main focus has often been a strident ve...

BEIRUT (AP) — After five years of carnage, the Syrian civil war can seem poised to go on indefinitely. But the "cessation of hostilities" engineered b...

WASHINGTON — The judicial wars threaten to engulf us in ceaseless cycles of partisan warfare and recriminations. Herewith, two modest (read: unlikely)...

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." —Newton's Third Law of Motion WASHINGTON — Notice the Newtonian physics of America's Madi...

WASHINGTON —The judicial wars threaten to engulf us in ceaseless cycles of partisan warfare and recriminations. Herewith, two modest (read: unlikely) ...

WASHINGTON — At a time when politics has veered toward division and exclusion, it is somehow fitting that Harper Lee, the apostle of empathy, made her...

WASHINGTON — In this depressingly unserious campaign season, it's time — past time — to take Donald Trump seriously. In particular, to take seriously ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The popular wisdom that opposites attract is true in both romance and politics. But rarely do adages prove so profoundly — and absurd...

WASHINGTON — Lyndon Johnson simply was exasperated. Barack Obama's mischief was methodical. Four days before the 1966 congressional elections, Johnson...

WASHINGTON — At first, in the summer of 2015, it seemed like a joke. Then a novelty. Then a bubble that must surely burst. Then a spectacle, overshado...

The fall of Kathleen Kane Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s abrupt announcement that she would not seek a second term almost certainly writes finis — b...

WASHINGTON — As Republican presidential candidates invoke Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's legacy, all insisting that his suddenly vacant seat s...

I had a twinge of nostalgia watching George W. Bush campaign for his little brother in South Carolina Monday night. He was earthy. He recalled a previ...

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders, greedy for power to punish people he considers greedy, has occasioned 2016's best joke (reported in Bloomberg Businesswee...