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WASHINGTON — John Kerry put his right hand on his heart. “This is not about me,” he said. The secretary of state was reacting to the torrent of critic...

NEW YORK — Something strange happened here this week: Lots of workers who’ve never done so before got the right to call in sick. And that’s a good thi...

WASHINGTON — With metronomic regularity, there is a choreographed minuet of carnage. Israel is attacked. Israel defends itself. Perfunctory affirmatio...

WASHINGTON —Ted Cruz must be Texan for chutzpah. The Texas Republican gave an interview to NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell the other day during which he was ask...

WASHINGTON — On July 1, the hospital in rural Belhaven, N.C., closed —a victim, in part, of the decision by the state’s governor and legislature to re...

WASHINGTON — Four years after Dodd-Frank became law, the question being asked is whether the country is safe from another financial crisis. It’s the w...

WASHINGTON — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair came to prominence in the 1990s as an expert in political renovation, transforming the Labour Pa...

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Fifty Julys ago, up the road near San Francisco, in the unfortunately named Cow Palace, the Republican National Convention gave i...

Is it hypocritical for a really, really rich person to object to rising inequality? I’ve been thinking about this in light of the derision the Clinton...

WASHINGTON — Let us now praise anonymous sources. The new White House press secretary got into a familiar old spat with the White House press corps th...

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office last week issued one of its periodic long-term budget outlooks. Its themes are distressingly familiar. Th...

WASHINGTON — In 1993, Lois Lowry wrote a slim book for youth about totalitarianism, euthanasia, suicide, sexual awakening and infanticide. “The Giver”...

SAN DIEGO — Before it’s too late, Americans need to turn their attention back to the children. The lost children of Central America have themselves go...

WASHINGTON — The Israeli soldier shot Yousef Bashir in the back in the front yard of his father’s house in Gaza. It was Feb. 18, 2004, a week after Yo...

WASHINGTON — The White House recently put out a 40-page report arguing that the 24 states that have not expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordabl...

WASHINGTON — On either end of Lafayette Square on Monday, you could observe the receding power of the Obama presidency. On the north side, across from...

WASHINGTON — It’s time for a primer on the Highway Trust Fund, which looms as the next battle in Congress’ unending budget wars. Created in 1956 to pa...

WASHINGTON — It should not be necessary to write this column. Lawyers represent clients. Criminal defense lawyers represent clients accused of crimes ...

SAN DIEGO — This Independence Day weekend, memory takes me back to something my father said during a Fourth of July celebration many years ago. Days e...

WASHINGTON — Two 5-4 decisions last week on the final decision day of the Supreme Court’s term dealt with issues that illustrate the legal consequence...