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WASHINGTON — Why should Republicans engage in outreach to African-Americans, even though the level of suspicion is so high and the yield in votes is l...

WASHINGTON — This far into the human story, only the historically uninstructed are startled by what they think are new permutations of evil. So, when ...

WASHINGTON — Grade deflation is dead. Long live grade inflation! Starting around the mid-20th century, a pandemic of meaninglessly high grades swept t...

WASHINGTON — So ends a foreign policy experiment that began with two choices in 2011. In that hinge year, President Obama decided to stay out of the S...

WASHINGTON -- Although the Ebola virus might remain mostly confined to West Africa, it has infected the Western imagination. This eruption of uncontro...

SAN DIEGO — I used to have a lot of respect for William Kristol when it came to the issue of immigration. In the 1990s, when California voters approve...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory attack on our economy in central and northwestern Pennsylvania has been growing for some time. ...

WASHINGTON — A prominent AIDS researcher recently recalled for me the panic at the start of the pandemic in the 1980s. Her superiors asked her not to ...

WASHINGTON — “Some of my friends are destitute. Some of them are beggars / But, for me, there’s a subsidy if I spend my whole life preggers.” That was...

When Jane’s husband died a few years ago, the most immediate obstacle she faced was the lack of transportation as she didn’t have a driver’s license. ...

Researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia may have found an entry-way to the cure for AIDS. Once the HIV virus enters the body it can lie dorma...

SAN DIEGO — I once used the term “spoiled brats” to describe “dreamers,” those young undocumented immigrants brought here by their parents who demand ...

WASHINGTON — At about 5:15 p.m. on June 17, 1971, in the Oval Office, the president ordered a crime: “I want it implemented on a thievery basis. Godda...

RICHMOND, Va.— There is a prominent flaw in the legal strategy of Bob McDonnell: Even if the disgraced former Virginia governor wins in court, he lose...

One in five? Yeah, right. Sounds way too high. That’s a common reaction to the oft-cited statistic about the share of women who experience an attempte...

SAN DIEGO — Just because you’re well-known doesn’t mean you’re well-informed. Case in point: Eva Longoria, Mexican-American actress, social commentato...

WASHINGTON — As more than 40 African leaders gather in Washington for an unprecedented summit, Africa’s brand problem in America has grown significant...

WASHINGTON — If Ohio’s senior senator were named Sharon Brown instead of Sherrod Brown, progressives would have a plausible political pin-up and a ser...

WASHINGTON — Forty years after he slunk out of office, Richard M. Nixon retains the capacity to astonish and disgust. Just when you thought you could ...

WASHINGTON — For every dissident and defector I’ve encountered, there is a moment when observation begins to feel like complicity — when remaining a b...