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WASHINGTON — Words have a way of seeping into our vocabulary and, through overuse or distortion, soon begin to lose their meaning. Who could have imag...

SAN DIEGO — There is nothing wrong with having a president who likes to debate. But things get awkward when he debates himself. We really don’t want a...

WASHINGTON — Who would have thought: — That gay rights groups’ biggest concern would not be how the Supreme Court would rule on same-sex marriage but ...

WASHINGTON — Why is the lineup of prospective GOP presidential candidates beginning to look like, well, a lineup? Chris Christie went to campaign last...

WASHINGTON — Here is what officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health have been telling us: Amer...

WASHINGTON — I was in the jittery Supreme Court chamber on a summer morning in 1992 when the right to abortion was on the line. As the justices took t...

PRINCETON, N.J. — Every 36 years, it seems Jeff Bell disturbs New Jersey’s political order. In 1978, as a 34-year-old apostle of supply-side economics...

WASHINGTON — When I wrote recently about how most millennials wanted to marry but found marriage out of economic reach, lots of skeptical readers wrot...

WASHINGTON — The New York Times had a fascinating story the other day, which again raises a crucial historical question about the financial crisis: Di...

CLEVELAND — Ginn Academy resembles no urban public school I’ve ever visited: all male, dress shirt and tie, the Socratic method employed in classrooms...

WASHINGTON — Julia Pierson is really putting “secret” into the Secret Service. First, her agency declared that the White House fence jumper who made i...

WASHINGTON — It has long been accepted by the conventionally wise that the Republican Party is waging a “war on women.” Let’s be clear. The war on wom...

“The legislative department is everywhere ... drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” — James Madison, Federalist 48 WASHINGTON — Unfortunately,...

WASHINGTON — One of the economy’s good-news stories is the oil boom, a derivative of the natural gas boom. When the drilling techniques used to tap va...

Can you feel it? The momentum is building. Bradford and the surrounding region is coming back — one new storefront, sidewalk, home and organization at...

WASHINGTON — Who’ll be the next attorney general? Washington’s favorite parlor game is filling Cabinet vacancies; I like playing as much as the next p...

For-profit colleges can’t get no respect, at least not from employers. Which suggests that maybe they should be getting less generous taxpayer subsidi...

What is the biggest problem facing America today? Certainly, there is a long litany to choose from: foreign wars, corrupt politicians, out-of-control ...

URBANDALE, Iowa — The Machine Shed restaurant, where the waitresses wear bib overalls and suggest a cinnamon roll the size of a loaf of bread as a bre...

WASHINGTON — My friend Ezekiel Emanuel, in his typically smart, provocative and bullheaded way, has decreed that he hopes to die at age 75, which woul...