Explaining why he wasn’t recommending prosecution, Director James Comey instead showed that charges would have been justified. Read More
Jim Comey knows how to spin a yarn. Nine years ago, I sat in a Senate hearing room and watched Comey, the former No. 2 official in... Read More
It is said—and most of us have spent our lives believing—that we are a nation of laws. If the FBI’s decision to not... Read More
SO NOW it’s all but official: No bolt from the blue will ruin Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes. There will be no... Read More
Hillary Clinton got her wish that the FBI would not recommend criminal charges for her homebrew email setup. Now she will suffer the... Read More
President Obama offered a rousing endorsement of Hillary Clinton and a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump at a rally here Tuesday. “There... Read More
Republicans may not be committing political hyperbole this year when they say their presidential candidate can win Pennsylvania, experts... Read More
You introduce yourself to voters as a son of Kansas and Kenya, an emblem of this country’s openness to outsiders and its embrace of... Read More
Sixty-four people were shot over the holiday weekend. Read More
or the first time since the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton rulings established a constitutional right to an... Read More
Bill Buckley was one of the first to suggest there was trouble brewing on campus when he published God and Man at Yale in 1951. He argued... Read More
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his fellow greenies are getting a lesson about the dangers of believing their own... Read More
Donald Trump says conventions are boring, especially the part where the presidential nominee waits three days to show up. The star of "The... Read More
I may be alone in saying this, but when the proverbial dust settles, James Comey may have hurt Hillary Clinton more than he helped her in his... Read More
Here’s what happened to Hillary Clinton on Tuesday: She learned that the FBI investigation into her emails would end without charges... Read More
It has been quite a week for Hillary Clinton. On Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey recommended against criminal charges in the wake of an... Read More
Americans were reminded on Independence Day of the imperfect but admirable enterprise that was this nation's founding. The Founding Fathers... Read More
James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., may have relieved Hillary Clinton of a legal burden on Tuesday, but he left her with a substantial... Read More
He shows how she broke the law then rationalizes no indictment. Read More
A STRING of horrific suicide bombings linked to the Islamic State, all in Muslim nations, underline a crucial truth that has been ignored by... Read More
The presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party—let’s call him Donald Trump, though “Donald Trump” is... Read More
We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper... Read More
The Republican yearning to pin a scandal on Hillary Clinton knows no bounds. Any scandal will do, real or imagined. She must somehow be -- or... Read More
Have you heard that Hillary Clinton is the “first woman” ever to be nominated for president by a major political party? Of course... Read More
Medina is a city eclipsed only by Mecca in the Muslim's sacred imagination.Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on Medina's Great Mosque,... Read More
Orlando, Istanbul, Dhaka, Baghdad—and a 13-year-old girl murdered in her sleep. Read More
THIS faded mining town east of Pittsburgh seems right out of “The Deer Hunter,” one of many blue-collar, gun-loving communities... Read More
Let’s make America great again, shall we?Get back to that time and place where everything was just clicking for us.Unyielding... Read More
Millennials are the worst. I should know — I am one.At 26, I’m stuck in the middle of the world’s most maligned, mocked and... Read More
Some people consider Sidney Blumenthal a canny adviser. To others, he appears a meddlesome opportunist. Now he has published a big book on... Read More
Three dozen union workers gathered outside city hall here on Thursday to rally against the global free-trade deals they believe have harmed... Read More
Since its formation in 1854, in the midst of a great crisis that threatened to tear the country apart, the Republican Party has stood... Read More
Brexit sheds light on the problems created when the idea of direct democracy is abused. In our complex 21st century world, we have no choice... Read More
I'm still reeling from the magnitude of it.When Britain voted to leave the European Union, it was defying the entire corporatist... Read More
Toronto’s legendary Pride Parade is a festival of inclusiveness – a good-natured rainbow coalition that embraces every letter of... Read More
Free food, sleep pods and graffiti walls. Few places are so enshrined in urban myth as Facebook, Google and other companies of their ilk.... Read More
This July 4, Cadet Tom Surdyke was laid to rest alongside his brothers in the long gray line. Read More
FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that Hillary Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” in handling classified emailed... Read More
No reasonable person could possibly square what FBI Director James Comey said about Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal... Read More
The F.B.I. on Tuesday recommended no charges against Hillary Clinton over her handling of classified information on a private email... Read More
Donald Trump charged today that “the system is rigged” after FBI Director James Comey announced that no charges would be... Read More
The concept of free trade is plumbing new depths in popularity this election season. Never a winner with liberal Democrats, the idea is also... Read More
Donald Trump has found a new enemy in his quest for the White House: the global elite. In a series of economic speeches, the presumptive... Read More
From where Peggy Sheahan stands, deep in rural Colorado, the last eight years were abysmal.Otero County, where Sheahan lives, is steadily... Read More
One-third of energy used in the US comes from natural gas. In 2015, the US consumed 7.08 billion barrels of oil and other petroleum... Read More
The threat of a devastating cyber attack on the U.S. electrical grid is increasing due to the Obama administration’s politically... Read More
At some point I realized that I had accidentally watched every episode of “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” The series, which airs,... Read More
There is a bittersweet poignancy to the timing of Elie Wieselâs death just as Americans were embarking on the Independence Day... Read More
FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that Hillary Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” in handling classified emailed information when she was secretary of state, but that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against her because there was insufficient evidence of intentional misconduct.“Although there is evidence of potential violation of the stat Read More
Republicans may not be committing political hyperbole this year when they say their presidential candidate can win Pennsylvania, experts say.Every election since Pennsylvania went for Bill Clinton in 1992, Republicans have declared “this time” the Keystone State will turn red.And every cycle they fail.This year might be different, according to experts in electoral math.“Republica Read More
With less than two weeks on the calendar, Congress faces a ticking clock and a packed legislative agenda before its long summer break.Lawmakers have yet to reach an agreement for funding to combat the Zika virus, and the effort devolved into partisan bickering last week when Senate Democrats filibustered a Republican proposal. They’ve also been stuck on measures to ban terrorist suspects fro Read More
