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DETROIT — Robert Griffin, now 90, who rose to be second in the Republican U.S. Senate leadership, was defeated in 1978. Since then, only one Michigan ...

WASHINGTON — In selecting Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman as host of the “Late Show,” CBS has waged war on America’s heartland — or so proc...

PHOENIX — From the Goldwater Institute, the fertile frontal lobe of the conservative movement’s brain, comes an innovative idea that is gaining tracti...

Congratulations, Kwasi Enin. You’re a 17-year-old Long Island high school student who applied to all eight of the nation’s elite Ivy League universiti...

WASHINGTON — Let’s have a rational discussion about the word “emotional.” But first, I’d better calm down. Maybe I’ll have a soothing cup of herbal te...

It is simply amazing to me how the Pennsylvania Game Commission operates. Their attitude and blatant disregard of hunters’ unhappiness with their deer...

WASHINGTON — Supporters of Obamacare are celebrating that the law is not an unmitigated disaster, just a mitigated one. As enrollment closed (for most...

Out in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania lawmakers are scrambling to climb on the bandwagon. "This is outrageous," they say. "We shouldn't be allowed to accept...

WASHINGTON — After writing close to 3,000 columns, I’ve learned that people sometimes read what they’re looking for, often as a result of a headline, ...

WASHINGTON — Rush Limbaugh can relax. The popular “demon of the right” has been replaced at least through the midterms by the Koch brothers, Charles a...

WASHINGTON — The human kindling that makes up the flammable Republican base may soon burst into flames, again. Portions of that excitable cohort are l...

One of the unwritten but widely respected rules of satire is that somehow, somewhere, someone simply isn’t going to get the joke. And if they don’t ge...

WASHINGTON — “A Dupont Circle neighbor said he seemed ‘more like a nerd than a spy.’” “The rabbi of the South Bend, Ind., temple where he was bar mitz...

A high school graduate who just barely made it through, or one who wants to go to a state university and can’t afford it. A working parent who wants t...

WASHINGTON — H.L. Mencken gets a workout in election years when voters are reminded by pundits of the curmudgeon’s observation that no one ever went b...

WASHINGTON — Part of this year’s Lenten discipline for many religious people has been to see two bad religious movies, “Noah” and “God’s Not Dead.” Bo...

WASHINGTON — The capital’s dysfunction has its unfortunate exceptions. Gridlock yields to interests powerful enough to trump habits of obstruction. Th...

WASHINGTON — “Andre Dawson,” Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully once said, “has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren’t we all?” Yes, so use so...

WASHINGTON — The past couple of weeks have marked a turning point in American ugliness as the mob has turned its full fury on first lady Michelle Obam...

WASHINGTON — Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer, said of Poland, perilously positioned between Russia and Germany: “If you pitch your tent in the m...