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Chicago politics have taken root in Vatican City. Pope Leo XIV may be a man of the cloth, but he is also a Southsider, so it is not surprising that he...

Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, “Many people — they’re j...

Will President Trump fall prey to the “Pottery Barn Doctrine”? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds ...

Politics is the great leveler: It makes even the most inspired and insightful voices sound banal. In his hurriedly cobbled-together new song railing a...

Donald Trump is the brass-tacks president the world needs now — a rare leader who prizes tangible results over empty slogans. Trump’s opponents cast h...

Washington, D.C., is Hollywood for ugly people. That old joke is the best description of our failing politics, as the seat of global power has now bec...