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WASHINGTON — Race is, hands down, the most repulsive aspect of the Donald Sterling scandal. But sex is a close second. To listen to the taped conversa...

WASHINGTON — Anodyne euphemisms often indicate an uneasy conscience or a political anxiety. Or both, as when the 1976 Democratic platform chose “compe...

Here’s an important lesson for politicians and talk show hosts: Be careful whom you put on a pedestal. They might fall on you. Yes, I’m referring to t...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The U.S. Naval Academy presents a challenging venue for Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s “lean in” pitch. On the on...

WASHINGTON — The law operates with bright-line rules but also with balancing tests and concerns over image. The appearance of impropriety. The appeara...

WASHINGTON — In the late 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble established that the light we detect from galaxies is shifted toward the redder colors of the ...

Is it fair to pressure companies into firing top officials because you don’t agree with their political views? Since when, I am asking, is fairness a ...

WASHINGTON — The word is out that Chelsea Clinton is with child, making the favorite Democratic presidential nominee a soon-to-be grandmother. The hea...

WASHINGTON — Recently, Barack Obama — a Demosthenes determined to elevate our politics from coarseness to elegance; a Pericles sent to ameliorate our ...

WASHINGTON — If you are the proud parent of a Dartmouth student, you should send a thank-you note to President Philip Hanlon. Actually, if you are the...

I see our current administration again has placed up a blockadeagainst this pipe line (Keystone Pipeline )that should have been built six years ago to...

WASHINGTON — The new “agreement” between Russia, the U.S. and our allies is exactly what the former KGB agent ordered. This isn’t to say it’s not a go...

WASHINGTON — One approaches the race fray with trepidation, but here we go, tippy-toe. The race cards have been flying so fast and furious lately, one...

In early April, the Anti-Defamation League offered some happy news about a very grim topic. It reported a “significant and encouraging decline” in ant...

WASHINGTON — In a 2006 interview, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the Constitution is “basically about” one word — “democracy” — that appear...

WASHINGTON — The line between determination and delusion can be obscure. Sometimes, the distinction emerges only in retrospect, like a Polaroid image ...

Fifty years later, it’s hard to imagine the enactment of the Civil Rights Act by today’s polarized Congress. Maybe, as the old saying goes, today’s fi...

BANGUI, Central African Republic — The tents of displaced people reach nearly up to the runway at the airport — the first impression of a nation in fl...

WASHINGTON — Here’s a radical notion: It is simultaneously possible to believe that women are entitled to equal pay and to not support the Paycheck Fa...

Factions among and within the right and left disagree about immigration, but nearly all Americans can agree that foreign terrorist shouldn’t step foot...