If the people are paying attention, they may wonder about the wisdom of building a new gymnasium at a school which could be scheduled for closure in the near f…
For years, I stalked the Capitol halls amid Congress' fiscal-year-end follies, waiting with other reporters for a breakthrough to end the latest faux crisis.
Al Franken was an above-average senator from Minnesota who was driven from office in 2018 by his Democratic colleagues after several women accused him of touch…
On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced that it will offer work permits and deportation protections to more than 400,000 Venezuelans who have arrived …
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for September 26, 2023.
Michael Ramirez's Free Press cartoon for September 26, 2023.
Lisa Benson's Free Press cartoon for September 25, 2023.
The evidence implicating President Joe Biden in influence peddling keeps piling up. There's less evidence that impeachment proceedings will be an electoral boo…
Polls show Americans are pessimistic about the economy, with inflation as the top concern. But do they understand where this inflationary surge came from, and …
In his biography of Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow writes that Hamilton "always had to fight the residual sadness of the driven man."
Supreme Court oral arguments have gotten too long. How do I know this? It used to be that during one of my longer morning runs, I could listen to an entire Sup…
The speaker of the House is the only congressional officer mentioned in the Constitution, other than a temporary Senate officer to preside when the vice presid…
Extreme heat causes thousands of unnecessary deaths each year in the United States. And due to climate change, heat waves are becoming more common. This summer…
It was the topic of conversation for the boys on the hallway wall, we sophomores who'd arrived at Brainerd High School before the first bell in the mid-Septemb…
I'm sitting in a barbershop in Nashville one day this year, waiting for my barber to finish up with a client.
