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WASHINGTON — It's no longer enough to be a happy warrior; now our candidates must be joyful! Oh, joie. Jeb Bush started the joy bender last week when ...

WASHINGTON — Rosa Parks is an American hero, but her case was not an accident. Other African-Americans had shown similar defiance (ask Claudette Colvi...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The accelerating effort to dislodge Attorney General Kathleen Kane from office and her heels-dug-in determination to keep her hold o...

WASHINGTON — Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, also is the time for The Washington Post and other sensitivity auditors to get back on —...

This Labor Day we recognize the incredible achievements of America’s working people and celebrate all those who make our country run. Many of us will ...

I’ve given American politicians a hard time for using China as a scapegoat for all that ails the U.S. economy. But, hey, at least they’re consistent. ...

WASHINGTON — One little boy in a red T-shirt, lying face down, drowned, on a Turkish beach, is a tragedy. More than 200,000 dead in Syria, 4 million f...

"It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race." — Chief Justice John Roberts WASHINGTON — Sordid, always. And sometimes lethal, as some Native...

SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump insists he’s no politician. Now, after what happened at a dramatic news conference in Iowa, we know that Jorge Ramos is no jo...

WASHINGTON — Globalization lives. A fascinating but little-noted aspect of the recent financial turmoil is how much it’s been an international event. ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump riddle continues to compel: How has he managed to successfully execute such a mass deception? He's by no definition a conservat...

WASHINGTON — “I don’t want it to be about me,” Donald Trump explained at a recent event in Nashville. In other news: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery....

Recently the Huffington Post published a list of the most liberal governors in the nation compiled by the website Inside Government. Surprising some, ...

WASHINGTON — Could Joe Biden be the man for this season? The vice president has been running for president since Hillary Clinton was first lady of Ark...

HARRISBURG (AP) — With Attorney General Kathleen Kane battling criminal charges and increasingly isolated from Pennsylvania’s legal and law enforcemen...

SAN DIEGO — Brittany Maynard was soon to die. The question was whether she could do so on her own terms, as a last act of autonomy. Dr. Lynette Cederq...

SAN DIEGO — Just when I thought Chris Matthews didn’t have anything helpful, original or insightful to say about immigration, he surprises me by offer...

WASHINGTON — Are we ready for the “Internet of Things”? Probably not. The phrase — coined in 1999 by researcher Kevin Ashton while working for Procter...

WASHINGTON — First was the dot-com bubble, then the housing bubble. Now comes the commodities bubble. We don’t fully understand the stock market’s cur...

WASHINGTON — Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon injures the chances of a Republican presidency. After Don...