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WASHINGTON — The morning after, at breakfast at the Republicans’ Capitol Hill Club, Virginia Rep. Robert Goodlatte was, as befits one of Washington’s ...

WASHINGTON — “Congressional Democrats were ecstatic,” The New York Times reported the morning after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s unexpected tro...

WASHINGTON — About that stunning defeat. Conventional Wisdom, that self-righteous propagandist, has it that Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cant...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett, trailing badly in the polls and running out of time to reconcile anemic tax collections with election-year appetit...

WASHINGTON — To hear tell, the mean ol’ GOP is waging war on Michelle Obama and, brace yourself, America’s children. Got it? The newest war on women/c...

BEIJING — Women, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed, hold up half the sky. But not half the Politburo. Chinese politics may be the ultimate old boys’ cl...

WASHINGTON — Neurosurgeon-turned-conservative icon Ben Carson said in a visit to the capital Wednesday that God’s plan for him is to teach Americans t...

WASHINGTON — Parallel to the rise of the tea party — with less attention but more potential influence — has been a gathering movement of reform conser...

WASHINGTON — It is said that the problem with the younger generation — any younger generation —is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is playing down an increasingly warm relationship between its main global rivals, China and Russia, that it...

BEIJING — I knew before arriving that Netflix’s “House of Cards” was an unexpected hit here. Still, it took the ripped-from-the-airwaves coincidence o...

WASHINGTON — Former President George W. Bush once said, rather proudly, that he didn’t read newspapers. President Barack Obama, a confirmed newsie, ha...

"Thanks, Michelle Obama." That's the sarcastic message schoolkids are sending the first lady about the new, supposedly healthier school lunches she ha...

The line "never forget" has often been used as a way to ensure that catastrophic, cataclysmic events aren't just stuffed away, out of mind, in history...

WASHINGTON — Why do some political scandals stick while others fade? The level of media obsession seems to rise and fall as mysteriously as the stock ...

This letter is to thank my fellow veterans for the time they took away from family, friends and community. It is also to thank those families that sha...

WASHINGTON — When my neighbor gleefully reported that Bill Maher had dedicated a searing monologue to me for a column about the Donald Sterling/Cliven...

WASHINGTON — The genius of the Constitution is to establish zones in which the rights of the minority are protected against majority oppression: freed...

President Obama visited a Walmart in Silicon Valley on Friday, where he announced that several hundred companies have committed to ramp up their use o...

Political pressure to bring home the bacon has, perhaps more than anything else, led to runaway federal spending and a debt so big the average mind ca...