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Is Cuba on the edge of a tectonic shift from Castroite communism to Western-style democracy? Until very recently, it would have seemed unthinkable. Bu...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is throwing cold water on the idea that the president can cancel student debt, but her reasoning may be more political than...

Shontel Brown had the Ohio Democratic establishment behind her and vowed to advance a big-tent brand of left-of-center politics. Nina Turner, backed b...

Joe Biden may have humanitarian motives for extending the Centers for Disease Control eviction ban that the Supreme Court has already deemed unlawful....

Three months ago, Canada, which has no domestic manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccines, lagged far behind the United States in immunizations. Only 3% of it...

There’s a handy device for determining status in American society — whether someone feels obligated to abide by his or her own COVID rules or not. The...

Congress is getting ready to finalize the Biden administration’s $550 billion infrastructure bill ($1.2 trillion, including already approved funding),...

More than 25 percent of new COVID-19 cases inLos Angeles Countyare among fully vaccinated people. And a story from theMercury Newslast weekend said th...

Teddy Roosevelt fervently believed that the president of the United States should be at the center of the political universe, constantly attracting at...

More than a century after the first women competed in the Olympics, sexism and sport continue to walk hand in hand, to the detriment of all. It begs t...

Let’s say there’s an outbreak of deadly parvovirus in your neighborhood. Your beloved golden retriever Red, however, goes into a full-scale panic atta...

Last week, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s longtime CEO and the wealthiest human on the planet, decided to treat himself to an extraordinary journey beyond the K...

For too long, Congress has ceded unreasonable amounts of power to the executive branch. Restoring the constitutional order should not be a partisan is...

President Joe Biden recently passed his six-month mark in the White House. It might end up being the high-water mark of his presidency. Biden’s job ap...

The thing about standards is, they’re worthless unless they are applied uniformly. A standard that applies to politicians on the right should apply eq...

What do rocket strikes by Shiite militias in Iraq, ransomware attacks on targets in the U.S., and Russia’s use of mercenaries on battlefields in the M...

What do rocket strikes by Shiite militias in Iraq, ransomware attacks on targets in the U.S., and Russia’s use of mercenaries on battlefields in the M...

If you wonder what Republicans are accomplishing in Washington, look no further than the Senate Armed Services committee, where a majority of them vot...