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WASHINGTON — In the fevered atmosphere of an election for president, attention naturally drifts away from the one who's still there. So it is with Pre...

CAMDEN, S.C. — Out on the hustings, people often ask me: "Can you explain South Carolina?" I just shake my head. It's complicated, I say. The simple a...

WASHINGTON — A public official can fight to expand the power and prerogatives of his office with skill and cunning. Defending the prerogatives of othe...

WASHINGTON — Antonin Scalia, who combined a zest for intellectual combat with a vast talent for friendship, was a Roman candle of sparkling jurisprude...

WASHINGTON — In a devastating outcome for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, this was the most unkindest cut of all: Women flocked to Bernie Sanders. N...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As Donald Trump's GOP opponents descend on South Carolina, they are running smack into a phenomenon. In this state, Trump is riding a...

Polls reveal it, politicians exploit it, and voters confirm it. Americans are angry — very angry. Indeed, voter anger may be the driving force in the ...

Northwestern Pennsylvania is being ignored by Harrisburg ––again. This time, Gov. Tom Wolf is off on a “Schools that Teach” tour across the state. Wel...

WASHINGTON — It is frequently said that, unfortunately, Americans disdain government. It is more usefully said that, unfortunately, they have abundant...

WASHINGTON — Two recent comments by famous feminists have underscored the inevitable and predicted the foregone: The feminist era of Hillary Clinton, ...

The Millard Public Schools in Omaha, Neb., will not allow its students to substitute marching band for its requirement that students take three semest...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The role of money in politics is neither as crude as Bernie Sanders suggests, nor as benign — at least when it comes to herself —as...

Nineties throwbacks seem to be everywhere these days: low unemployment, a Bush and a Clinton running for office, friends from “Full House” and “X-File...

SAN DIEGO —I hate to burst Chris Christie's bubble, but he's wrong about Marco Rubio having a soft and cushy path to this point. The Florida senator h...

WASHINGTON — When the Watergate tapes were released, some Americans were dismayed at the many "expletives deleted" that Richard Nixon employed in priv...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — As speaking fees go, Hillary Clinton's allegedly scandalous $200,000 per engagement is chump change compared with Donald Trump's $1...

WASHINGTON —The GOP front-runners who did not melt down into an oleaginous puddle of self-pity, delusion and poor sportsmanship — the winners of the c...

WASHINGTON — Settling unhappily into his Super Bowl seat, Himalayan high behind the end zone, Joe spots an empty seat low and on the 50-yard line. He ...

SAN DIEGO — How do you say "poetic justice" in Spanish? You got me. The nativists who nest in both parties are wrong that Latinos aren't learning Engl...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Wednesday night's televised town hall with Hillary Clinton featured the candidate at her best — and her worst. Clinton and her camp...