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HARRISBURG (AP) — The success of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to make Pennsylvania’s school funding system fairer could hinge on this: Whether he can convince...

WASHINGTON — College acceptance letters go out — actually, college admissions web portals go live — in a few weeks. This column was originally intende...

WASHINGTON — In the mid-1960s, a social scientist noted something ominous that came to be called “Moynihan’s Scissors”: Two lines on a graph crossed, ...

WASHINGTON — Fed bashing — strident criticism of the Federal Reserve — is back in style, and it’s taken a new turn. Traditionally, it’s been a liberal...

The Tea Party wing of the Republican party thinks House speaker John Boehner is a rhino. Not the thick-skinned horned mammal that lives in Africa. Thi...

WASHINGTON — The true scandal of the Tom Cotton letter to Iranian leaders is the manner in which the Republican Senate apparently conducts its affairs...

WASHINGTON — For what she says is the sake of “convenience” — who wants to have to fiddle with two hand-held devices when one will do nicely? — Hillar...

SAN DIEGO — Fox News host Megyn Kelly and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., are quite the political odd couple. They came together recently when Gutierrez ...

WASHINGTON — Conservatives’ next disappointment will at least be a validation. The coming reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank will confirm their...

WASHINGTON — With a few tweaks to Scripture, herewith today’s relevant verse: What therefore President Obama hath joined together, let Republicans put...

WASHINGTON — So it turns out Hillary Clinton will face a serious challenger in the primaries, after all. Her name is Hillary Clinton. This week’s reve...

WASHINGTON — The juxtaposition of the Justice Department’s damning Ferguson report and President Obama’s fine speech to mark the 50th anniversary of B...

It’s great that Hillary Clinton has asked the State Department to release her official emails. Still, belated disclosure isn’t going to make the story...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf fleshed out the centerpiece of his election campaign this week, unrolling a bold blueprint for raising and spending bi...

WASHINGTON — Michael Froman received from a Harvard Law School classmate, Barack Obama, a job that validates the axiom that the unlikelihood of any ne...

WASHINGTON — Over the years, President Obama has been criticized and praised — but mainly praised — for lacking a driving foreign policy ideology. It ...

WASHINGTON — “At least nobody died,” we often hear in politics to explain away some regrettable act. As in: So, yeah, maybe President Obama wasn’t tel...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Servic...

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously observed, “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” Pennsylvania Gov...

WASHINGTON — Will Justice Anthony Kennedy’s solicitude for states trump his antipathy to the Affordable Care Act and save the day for Obamacare? With ...