opinion

Why, many are asking, did it take the world so long to pay much attention to the kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls by Muslim fanatics in Nigeria...

WASHINGTON — U.S. District Judge Rudolph T. Randa, revolted by the police-state arrogance of some elected prosecutors, has stopped a partisan abuse of...

The wheels of justice have nothing on property tax reform and education funding in this state. Both grind away at a snail’s pace. In the meantime, sen...

WASHINGTON — On the eve of the Obama administration’s release Tuesday of a report warning about grave consequences of climate change, presidential cou...

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Obama’s nominee to succeed Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of Health and Human Services, appeared Thursday before the...

WASHINGTON — The unfolding GOP primary season is clarifying two points: The Republican establishment is back, and it is more conservative than you’d t...

WASHINGTON — After the marshal on Monday spoke the traditional “God save the United States and this honorable court,” the Supreme Court ruled that the...

The White House initiative against sexual assaults on university and college campuses is a welcome and long overdue effort. It could bring necessary a...

WASHINGTON — Monica Lewinsky may not have intended it this way, but she just did Hillary Clinton a big favor. Lewinsky could be forgiven, of course, i...

It’s official: Americans enjoy freedom of religion. They do not have freedom from religion. We can thank the Supreme Court’s conservative majority and...

No species in nature kills its own kind more often or more creatively than humans do, yet we cannot seem to devise a reliably swift, painless method o...

WASHINGTON — When Lady Justice takes a count of bleeding hearts outside the execution chamber, she won’t find mine among them. I am no passionate oppo...

Now that the National Basketball Association has banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Don Sterling for life over his racist comments, how about those Was...

WASHINGTON — If the president wants to witness a refutation of his assertion that the survival of the Affordable Care Act is assured, come Thursday he...

WASHINGTON — This is the time when Americans renew their hatred of Washington and Washington wallows in a bittersweet cocktail of self-love and self-l...

WASHINGTON — Say what you will, but you’d best check for recording devices. Alternatively, you might check your thoughts. The past few days have provi...

Donald Sterling, 80, the now-banished owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, reminds me of every guy I’ve heard say, “I can’t be racist. I’ve even dated b...

FLINT, Mich. — Earnest moralists lament Americans’ distrust of government. What really is regrettable is that government does much to earn distrust, a...

WASHINGTON — In one of the lower policy points during the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Rick Santorum told a tea party group, “President Obama onc...

WASHINGTON — The Cliven Bundy spectacle in Nevada has provided a Wild West backdrop for our hottest political issues as we gallop toward the midterm e...