Where were you when we needed you? That’s my blanket response to a persistent trickle of emails from readers who keep asking me to, in effect, stop using the word “conservative” when I mean “crazy.” “Or “fascist.” Or “mean.” Which is to say that these people, most of whom ...

Today in History Today is Thursday, June 9, the 160th day of 2022. There are 205 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 9, 2004, the body of Ronald Reagan arrived in Washington to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda before the 40th president’s funeral. On ...

Donald Trump implicitly endorsed a half-baked conspiracy theory for why his candidates lost in the Georgia Republican primaries, and it created barely a ripple in the political world. The man who shocked and outraged his way through four transfixing years as president of the United States has ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has quickly responded with personal empathy to the killing of 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. As a longstanding advocate of bipartisanship during his 36 years in the Senate, Biden has called on Congress to ban assault ...

Today is Tuesday, June 7, the 158th day of 2022. There are 207 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 7, 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for ...

There are no adjectives that can accurately describe the gruesome act committed by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 children and two teachers. "Evil" is about as close as it gets. President Biden and some fellow Democrats predictably called ...