June 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
This week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Beijing — the latest, welcome effort by Washington to inject stability into a dangerously fraught U.S.-China relationship. Read story
June 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The rationale behind keeping adolescents and young adults in juvenile facilities for crimes they committed as minors is on-target. Research consistently shows that locking young people in prison does not create the behavior changes society seeks. Read story
June 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The “nothing matters” theory of politics is on my mind again. It wasn’t put there just by the tumultuous events in national politics, but by a local poll. Read story
June 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Out of the miasma of Republican denial, a bold truth teller has emerged. Read story
June 17, 2023, 6:01am Columns
There are tens of millions of conservatives in the U.S. For American democracy to succeed, they need a political party that productively channels their aspirations, represents their ideologies, mediates their conflicts and functions in accord with democratic values and the rule of law. Read story
June 17, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Ever since he was named chair of the House Judiciary Committee, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan has shown his affinity toward McCarthy. That would be Sen. Joseph McCarthy, not the current U.S. House speaker. Read story
June 17, 2023, 6:01am Columns
When state lawmakers finally agreed about a month ago on a strategy for the drug crisis, it signaled, for most of Washington, the end of two years of uncertainty and intense debate on this impossible issue. Read story
June 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
This is hardly a scientific sampling, but a high school teacher in the Dallas area tells me that her students have two big worries. Read story
June 15, 2023, 6:01am Columns
For a while last week, former Vice President Mike Pence seemed to be hitting the 2024 presidential campaign trail with a new determination to travel a bold, principled and unswerving path that would set him apart from the Republican presidential pack. Read story
June 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden, eager to get more tax money to pay for the faults of others along with his own disastrously irresponsible, inflationary overspending, has said that American billionaires have a tax rate of just 8 percent. Read story
