opinion

WASHINGTON — Watching the racial ferment on campuses nationwide, and listening to the Supreme Court consider the charged topic of affirmative action, ...

WASHINGTON — There is a fine line between reflecting the concerns of voters and performing a crude and offensive imitation that mocks and defiles thei...

WASHINGTON — Crickets. This was the sound of America reacting to news earlier this month that all military positions, including ground combat, will be...

WASHINGTON — If Pagedale, Missouri, is a glimpse of the future, the future is going to be annoying. Pagedale might represent the future of governance ...

Before a cheering and whooping crowd in Mount Pleasant, S.C., Donald Trump, spewing the blustery rhetoric of a demagogue, declared that the United Sta...

Predicating what will happen in the 2016 election cycle looks like a fool’s errand. Virtually every expert has been wrong so far. The Republican presi...

DACHAU, Germany — In a place synonymous with death, life has taken an unexpected turn. The radiating crisis of the Middle East has reached Bavaria in ...

WASHINGTON — In today's culture of hyperbole, born of desperate attempts to be noticed amid the Niagara of Internet and other outpourings, the label "...

WASHINGTON — It is happening here. With his call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," Donald Trump has crossed a...

WASHINGTON — In his address to the nation on terrorism, President Obama warned against "tough talk." On this, at least, no one can accuse him of hypoc...

WASHINGTON — Americans looking for a Snuggy Bear and a blankey to ease their anxieties about the Islamic State will have to become more comfortable wi...

I was recently talking to a Foster Township resident who explained to me that Bradford City Mayor Tom Riel was going to make him pay for rain. I confe...

WASHINGTON — As the Islamic State amped up attacks around the world, the Pentagon responded by bravely announcing that American women will now be put ...

WASHINGTON — "Mommy, what did the news used to be about before it was about terrorism?" That was my younger daughter, snuggling in bed a few weeks aft...

WASHINGTON — Progressives are increasingly preoccupied with income inequality, and their current hero, Sen. Bernie Sanders, favors increasing the tax ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Around this time of year, Joel and Lorraine Leydier usually make their annual drive from their home in a small town east of Toron...

LILLE, France (AP) — Security and migrants, themes irresistible to France's far-right National Front, are being served up on a silver platter to leade...

Whoever wins the White House next year will have to deal with an issue of almost-impenetrable complexity and contentiousness: How to tax multinational...

WASHINGTON — Predictably, the killing rampage at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility has prompted a political scrimmage of the usual sort. ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Sen. Tim Scott, who evidently has not received the memo explaining that politics is a grim and bitter business, laughs easily and o...