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If you are a true conservative — and I use the term not as Ted Cruz might, but in its literal sense, as in conserving what is of value in the modern w...

Like most Americans, I’ve spent the last few weeks contemplating the implications of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, including those that ext...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is a corrupt and ruthless dictator who has resurrected the former Soviet Union’s ambition to be the dominant force in...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for American unity on Tuesday in his first floor speech since Russia invaded Ukraine, and condemned the “b...

Under the shadow of growing tensions with Beijing, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would help the United States remain econ...

In an ideal world, it wouldn’t be hard for the Republican Party to do two things. The first is to acknowledge that former President Donald Trump’s cla...

The Affordable Care Act, which not that long ago appeared doomed by Republican determination to kill it, has quietly become an integral and accepted p...

In the wake of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement, an odd controversy has swirled around President Joe Biden’s campaign pledge to appoint a Black wom...

A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...

Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you h...

As life returned somewhat to normal last year after the pandemic shutdowns of 2020, America’s briefly reduced greenhouse gas emissions have started cl...

No CPAC invitation will be in the offing anytime soon, but Vladimir Putin has picked up admirers on the populist right, here and abroad, that he doesn...

The death of former Sen. Bob Dole at age 98 — a full quarter-century after he was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee — inevitably raises...

Prosecutors in the Michigan school shooting by a 15-year-old student that left four dead also have filed manslaughter charges against the shooter’s pa...

There was a prevailing feeling of optimism as I stood outside the Supreme Court with the sun warming us on a brisk late fall day as oral arguments in ...

Every time I hear somebody say that America’s contemporary political climate is uniquely violent, I wonder, “Where were you during the Nixon years?” T...

Remember when Joe Biden ran for president in what commentators called the “centrist” lane of the Democratic primaries? The idea was that a “moderate” ...

Democrats should leave in place a cap on deductions that wealthy taxpayers can claim based on their state taxes — the one good part of the Republicans...