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President Trump, relying on Attorney General Jeff Sessions as his spokesman Tuesday, rescinded a program created by... Read More
Even in our divided politics, it should be a matter of consensus that the president of the United States can't write laws on his own. That's... Read More
I’ve followed the politics and reality of immigration for a long time. In the mid-1980s, I traveled around the country for several... Read More
OPINION Democrats have a chance to score a victory for their constituents and 800,000 DREAMERS by merely agreeing to build a wall. Read More
President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration... Read More
It is not healthy for a society to live two lives that are antithetical, as America has been doing in recent decades.Disillusionment with... Read More
Conservatives and liberals don't just disagreeâthey actually like to hate each other. And it's getting uglier. Read More
If you read any political commentary over the last few weeks, you probably heard that Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has problems.... Read More
If the left is going to win it needs to stop factionalizing the party and buying into the GOP line demonizing liberals, writes Jill Filipovic. Read More
When it came to which candidate the press obviously preferred in 2016, Clinton was the hands-down winner. Read More
WASHINGTON -- When today's historians look at the confrontation between the United States and North Korea, they're likely to hear echoes... Read More
The reality is that it has now become an increasing possibility, but not a probability. Read More
Removing Confederate statues should be the least of the leaders' concerns. Read More
Let’s put it bluntly: Antifa is not part of the Democratic Party, while white supremacists are part of the GOP. Read More
For decades, liberal journalists have often tried to discredit conservative protest movements, from the tea party to the pro-lifers, by... Read More
Overdose deaths rose by more than a fifth from 2015 to 2016. Read More
If we objectified football players less, maybe we'd protect them better. Read More
Rule Of Law: What happens when the president of the United States decides to uphold the Constitution's separation of powers and appropriately... Read More
The Trump administration announced the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, on a delayed, rolling basis. The decision is... Read More
Congress should but won't fix the immigration system, which means Trump's slow end to DACA pulls the rug out from under 800,000... Read More
Over the weekend, North Korea successfully tested what it claims to be a hydrogen bomb. After months of increasingly impressive missile... Read More
The reasons against military intervention are more compelling than ever. Read More
After the election of Donald Trump, there arose a self-described Resistance. It apparently posed as a decentralized network of progressive... Read More
Just imagine what a sane or competent Republican would be doing with full control of government Read More
With no clear front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, several prospective candidates are beginning to stir. The process... Read More
That depends on Paul Ryan, the Freedom Caucus, the Democrats, and you know who. Read More
There's a lot going on in the Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump/Russia investigation that all the highfalutin newspapers who cover politics are... Read More
With President Trump and Congress turning to tax policy, it's worth revisiting a story about wealth from another era. Read More
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I was seven years old when my family and I arrived at JFK Airport in New York City on a visitor’s visa in 1998. Our visa eventually... Read More
The DACA controversy demonstrates the wages of the progressive conceit that our ingenious constitutional system is obsolete, that modern... Read More
The former president, who has weighed in to urge credible, peaceful polling in Kenya's tense election, maintains command, respect and moral... Read More
Everyone knows that former President Barack Obama, our Great American Constitutional Law Professor, got mercilessly schooled by the Supreme... Read More
President Trump, cornered, weakened, and apparently unable to get his hands on the usual levers of presidential powers, has adopted pretty... Read More
The man who got us here - 50 ideas blowing up American politics â and the people behind them. Read More
Political theater or not, DACA is probably unconstitutional. Something the pretend-defenders of law and order might want to remember. Read More
Trump's betrayal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants is a stain on the honor of the United States Read More
Irma isn’t the only Category 5 hurricane headed for the United States. As the nation heads back to work today, refreshed from... Read More
We have entered the most dangerous moment in world politics since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Read More
Despite the administration's tough words for Kim Jong Un, a military option is not our best option Read More
Trump had no intention of delivering for American workers, except at the level of rhetoric. His actual policies are viciously anti-labor. Read More
“Judge not, that you not be judged,” the Gospel of Matthew advises us. Those words are from the Sermon on the Mount. In the... Read More
Governor Chris Christie refused to rule out the possibility that he could replace New Jersey's U.S. senator Bob Menendez if the Democratic... Read More
On August 12, German Chancellor Angela Merkel kicked off her reelection campaign in the west German city of Dortmund. Fresh from a three-week... Read More
Germany is making trouble again. This time it is not sending young men in uniform swarming across its borders to conquer Europe. Instead, it... Read More

President Trump, relying on Attorney General Jeff Sessions as his spokesman Tuesday, rescinded a program created by President Obama that allowed children of undocumented immigrants in the United States to attend school and obtain work permits without citizenship.The president’s decision, reached after months of back-and-forth deliberations and public assurances that he would use “heart Read More

We have entered the most dangerous moment in world politics since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.The nightmare is only getting worse, thanks to North Korea’s increasingly rapid development of nuclear weapons, the missiles to deliver them, and the regime’s chilling threats to use them against the U.S., Japan, and South Korea.Last week, despite U.N. sanctions and China’s public call Read More

If you read any political commentary over the last few weeks, you probably heard that Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has problems. He’s in a feud with a president from his own party. His primary challenger led him in a recent poll. He may have trouble winning the general election in 2018 (if he makes it that far). His state has a large and growing Hispanic population -- which makes it a constant ta Read More
