opinion

Heirs care about how their parents are remembered, although they have very different ways of showing it. The daughters of President Lyndon B. Johnson,...

Marcus Smart went to block a shot and landed near the crowd. It was the final seconds of a college basketball game that his team, Oklahoma State, was ...

Even though Washington still is grappling with the public backlash over revelations about its data-mining activities with Americans’ phone records, th...

WASHINGTON — The deal, for a company you’ve probably never heard of, is worth at least $16 billion. To put this number into perspective, the market va...

It’s official. People who leave ugly comments on the Internet are sadists and psychopaths, a Canadian study says. That’s more elegant than what I call...

WASHINGTON — Republicans have excelled at concealing their brilliance in recent years and Democrats have exalted in their own good fortune. Whether di...

“Marijuana arrests are half of all drug arrests and we arrest African-Americans at five times the rate of whites. This is wrong and it must stop.” Tha...

WASHINGTON — This year’s most important election will not occur in November, when more than 90 million votes will be cast for governors and national l...

WASHINGTON — The treatment helped. The patient is recovering. The doctor is still being accused of malpractice. That, in a nutshell, is the story of t...

A federal appeals court held in July that New York Times reporter James Risen had to provide testimony at the criminal trial of a former CIA agent cha...

As the usual suspects in Congress argue over whether to extend unemployment benefits, which ran out at the end of last year for more than a million jo...

AL HADALAT, Jordan — For refugees to arrive at this remote eastern border crossing — about 100 kilometers from Iraq — is itself a feat of courage and ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — This year’s campaigns for Pennsylvania’s 18 seats in the U.S. House may be largely overshadowed by the high-voltage gubernatorial ra...

I was not surprised to hear that the United Steelworkers were helping athletes at Northwestern University to file a petition to form a union. Unions a...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Because it is this year’s first federal election, attention must be paid to the March 11 voting to fill the congressional seat vaca...