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SAN DIEGO — There’s a rift between CNN and the National Association of Black Journalists. Now the leader of the Congressional Black Caucus wants to ma...

WASHINGTON — “Ebola has reminded people that it is not just poor people who can die of infectious disease,” Bill Gates tells me, in a characteristical...

WASHINGTON — Run, Jeb, run. I mean it, despite two powerful arguments against a presidential run by Jeb Bush — one specific to the former Florida gove...

WASHINGTON — In July, when House Republicans voted to sue the president, they spoke of the urgent need to stop “tyranny” at the other end of Pennsylva...

WASHINGTON — To paraphrase Roger Miller — and, indeed, to reveal my vast store of musical trivia — America swings like a pendulum do. If projections, ...

MCDONOUGH, Ga. — In a sun-dappled square decorated with scores of entrants in the community’s Halloween scarecrow contest, a balky sound system enable...

WASHINGTON — The millionaire’s club isn’t what it used to be. Time was that “being a millionaire” was a mark of unimaginable success. You’d joined the...

WASHINGTON — It’s a good thing for Dominic Adesanya that U.S. marshals don’t bite. If they did, he would have a new set of puncture wounds to match th...

WASHINGTON — David Perdue took the cheap and easy route. The Republican Senate candidate in Georgia, like Republican candidates in most other competit...

SAN DIEGO — Recently, after I took a jab at right-wingers with closed minds who want closed borders, a reader asked: “Are you for open borders and the...

WASHINGTON — In an older, gentrifying, suburban Virginia neighborhood — the kind with porch flags and pumpkins on the front steps — I am welcomed at a...

WASHINGTON — The early morning paramilitary-style raids on citizens’ homes were conducted by law enforcement officers, sometimes wearing bulletproof v...

Think things can’t get any worse with the approval rating of Congress polling as low as a 7 percent while national problems pile up and an increasingl...

America has decided: Sex is for rich people. Non-procreative sex in particular. How else would you explain the trap we’re laying for poor people who d...

WASHINGTON — It is such a relief about that Ebola thing. The threat of an American outbreak turned out to be overhyped. A military operation is underw...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Last week, the national Democratic Party left Alison Lundergan Grimes for dead. So why does she still have a pulse? The Democrati...

WASHINGTON — If politicians preying upon your attentions this season fail to inspire, you might seek common cause with the beasts — the four-legged va...

WASHINGTON — Monica Lewinsky is trying to make lemonade out of 16-year-old lemons. Good for her, and good, ultimately, for us. Not so good, of course,...

WASHINGTON — On the theory that chickens should not only be counted before they hatch but killed, let us consider the downsides for Republicans of win...

The Pennsylvania Senate, possibly for the first time in its history, stood up against the NRA leadership and extreme gun-rights groups, and voted to b...