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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate minority leader, is not a happy man. He didn’t like it when Barack Obama was elected president. Just about th...

WASHINGTON — It was just like the good old days. Scooter Libby was in the front row. Paul Wolfowitz was in the second. And on the stage was Dick Chene...

You’ve heard of grade inflation? Welcome to the world of degree inflation. A new report finds that employers are increasingly requiring a bachelor’s d...

He had never held an elective office; yet, he won the Democratic primary against formidable opposition, even though hewas not endorsed by his own poli...

WASHINGTON — Among many talents exhibited by Chuck Todd in the days since he replaced David Gregory as host of “Meet the Press” is his ability to turn...

WASHINGTON — Since Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republicans’ 1964 presidential nomination, said “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” De...

WASHINGTON — As America pivots back to the Middle East — in belated recognition that America’s enemies never pivoted from their intention to establish...

WASHINGTON — Reader, she married him. The day after he was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault for knocking her unconscious. I would say allege...

SAN DIEGO — I’ve spent the last few days looking around and wondering: “When did the American worker get so whiny?” A lot of people seem to resent hav...

Just about everyone has an opinion of what President Obama should do about the ISIS threat in Iraq. Many of the suggestions have come from the archite...

WASHINGTON — Speaking on Aug. 29 — at a fundraiser, of course — Barack Obama applied to a platitude the varnish of smartphone sociology, producing thi...

WASHINGTON — Suppose we could design the next phase of the economic recovery. What would it look like? Here’s one pleasing vision. Business investment...

SAN DIEGO — This summer’s unrest in Ferguson, Mo., was a reminder that the country’s dominant racial narrative has been about blacks and whites. As wi...

Customers can be so demanding. First they criticized fast-food joints over nutritional content. Now they’re getting picky about tax and labor practice...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes the artifice of writing — metaphors, historical comparisons, the just-so quote — fails. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa deman...

WASHINGTON — It was all going well until John Kerry tried to kill off George Shultz. The secretary of state was welcoming five of his predecessors to ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama is not worried. And that is unnerving. British Prime Minister David Cameron presented to Parliament on Monday the alarmin...

WASHINGTON — The Islamic State is a nasty problem that can be remedied if its neighbors, assisted by the United States, decide to do so. Vladimir Puti...

Betrothed women of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your husbands’ names. I’m getting married in a few days, and — as I’m told happens w...

WASHINGTON — The word of the day is herky-jerky, which is a polite way of saying erratic. And which, I regret to report, is a fitting description of P...