There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.
President Trump’s impending decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall will quickly face serious legal challenges. It may be more vulnerable than the White House suspects.
The arguments against withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan are becoming weaker and weaker.
The President is an ignoramus and a blowhard and a petulant child but he’s operating within the Constitutional limits of his office.
Pensions and health care costs for the elderly are crowding out other vital spending.
The efforts by Speaker Pelosi and President Trump to leverage their institutional powers raise interesting questions.
Notwithstanding the temptation to do something, both the United States and NATO need to resist the temptation to get involved in the latest conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
In what has to qualify as one of the most horrifying displays of moral depravity on the international stage, the Trump Administration is saying it doesn’t really care if the Saudi Crown Prince is a murderer or not.
A Pennsylvania Grand Jury report reveals decades of abuse by some 300 Catholic Priests impacting more than 1,000 children and 26 of the state’s Roman Catholic Diocese.
A new survey shows that Americans are increasingly unable to tell the difference between fact and opinion. That’s a problem.
Madison was right about politicians and ambition. He just didn’t see the how it would all play out.
The dean of conservative columnists argues that the Republican Congress must be taught a lesson.
More than a decade ago, Donald Trump revealed one of his secrets to success. Exhaust your enemies. It explains much of what has happened since he took office.
The tragedy of Bill Cosby lies not in the downfall of a man once known as “America’s Dad,” but in the fact that a man who was, in fact, a sexual predator was allowed to evade justice for far too long.
The United States can’t do any good in Syria, but we can do a lot of bad.
More than 1200 refugees, mostly from Honduras, are trying to come to the United States. What should we do about it?
Personal attacks on teenagers whose friends were murdered is a strategy sure to backfire.
Nine years later, at least one member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee is admitting what seemed at the time a rather obvious fact.
Under Nelson Mandela’s leadership, the country made a smooth transition from apartheid. Now it’s going the way of Zimbabwe.
Salary-based definitions distort the conversation. And lifestyle-based definitions are a moving target.
Dave Schuler argues the US would have a much better healthcare system if we had modeled it on VA clinics rather than private insurance.
The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.
When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump has no over-arching philosophy and little knowledge, so don’t expect anything approaching a coherent doctrine from his Administration.
Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.
Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.
Angela Merkel was re-elected to a fourth term as German Chancellor as expected, but voters also sent a warning.
Absent significant changes, expecting normal diplomatic relationships with the DPRK is a pipe dream.
Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.
With the Administration’s six-month point approaching, Donald Trump continues to lag in the polls.
I am going to construct a complicated mathematical model of the economy, and then I’m going to calibrate it using some actual data, and in the end I will be able to tell everyone how much better or worse off they are given various changes in the economy. And it will be totally and completely true. Trust me, it’s math and therefore science.
For largely irrational reasons, French police are arresting women on the beach for wearing swimsuits that are compatible with their faith.
We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.
Top officials of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have taken jobs in the industry they were regulating.
Major carriers are reporting massive losses and demanding major rate hikes to cover the costs imposed by PPACA.
Americans don’t trust their government or each other. There’s no reason to hope it’ll get better.
To a large degree, the narrative you believe will govern the 2016 elections depend on which party you want to see win. But what’s the most likely outcome?
We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.
Obama’s first Secretary of State has come out against Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership.
Even with a recent negative downturn in the polls, the reports of Hillary Clinton’s impending political demise are largely wishful thinking on the part of conservatives.
Dave Schuler proposes a “radical idea” to safeguard individual privacy “in the wake of the hacking of Sony and the multiple credit card exploits over the last year or so.”