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WASHINGTON — Think of the children. These days, politicians — and their constituents — generally don’t. For all their baby-kissing, politicians know t...

WASHINGTON — The last lunch hour of the summer was like many others outside the White House gates. In Lafayette Square, office workers were eating, or...

WASHINGTON — Without prior knowledge or intent, I recently was inducted into a club I had no interest in joining, especially in light of the $200 init...

WASHINGTON — This is how a Nobel Peace Prize laureate goes to war. He smiles warmly at the members of the U.N. General Assembly. He mentions his grand...

SHAWNEE, Kan. — Tacked to the wall of Greg Orman’s campaign office is a print of a John Steuart Curry painting, “Tragic Prelude,” that hangs in the ca...

WASHINGTON — It is the most important development so far in the 2016 presidential race, at least on the Republican side: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christi...

WASHINGTON — The pursuit of perfection is usually foredoomed, but the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, which has a latitudinarian understanding of ...

WASHINGTON — Have America’s public schools gotten worse over the years? Americans seem to think so. Every time I write about why attending college is ...

MIDLAND, Texas — I spent the 16th of September, Mexican Independence Day, with a former president of Mexico — and tried to figure out which U.S. presi...

WASHINGTON — The pursuit of perfection is usually foredoomed, but the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, which has a latitudinarian understanding of ...

WASHINGTON — When Trey Gowdy got the job to run the House’s new Benghazi select committee, there was good reason to fear bad things. Gowdy, a former p...

SAN DIEGO — With students going back to school, it’s a good time to review the 10 lessons that Americans should have learned if they were paying atten...

WASHINGTON — We want to move out. We want to own our home. We want to marry. We want to work. The problem is, many of us can’t. America’s young adults...

WASHINGTON — From Belgium comes news that a mentally disturbed prisoner is to be granted government help in committing suicide. A typically shallow et...

WASHINGTON — The United States last declared war many wars ago, on June 5, 1942, when, to clarify legal ambiguities during a world conflagration, it d...

WASHINGTON —The headline out of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Iowa was her flagrant flirtation with the prospect of another presidential campaign. The mo...

(Editor’s note: National syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, who has appeared on the editorial page of The Era for several years, has been off for s...

WASHINGTON — America’s economy is improving, but the public mood is a lagging indicator. A Pew poll in late August found that Americans recognize that...

WASHINGTON — Congress has a duty — to itself and the country — to debate and authorize President Obama’s military campaign against the Islamic State i...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The get-rich-quick town is going broke. Again. On a recent breezy Saturday night, row after row of slot machines at the Trump Pl...