Don't blame President Donald Trump for the setback Republicans are facing this November. Ahead of next year's congressional midterms, the first big test of the GOP's strength since Trump returned to office comes this fall in New Jersey and Virginia. While Republicans always expect an uphill ...

I don't know if you've heard already, but there's a new pope in town. Not only is he American — the first U.S.-born head of the Catholic Church — but he's also from Chicago, which is close enough to where I live to have sent a thrill of victory through me when I heard the announcement. For ...

If you are a graduate of Yale University, you can vote every spring for a member of the Yale Corporation, which selects the school's president. However, you can only participate if you vote for one of the two candidates nominated by the Alumni Fellow Nominating Committee, a group of university ...

Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the "wall" between federal law enforcement and federal spies. The wall was erected in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which statutorily limited all federal domestic spying ...

In case anyone was wondering, Joe Biden is every bit as unimpressive out of office as he was in it. The man who shuffled off stage last year in the middle of the play — an absurdist tragicomedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance — has shuffled back on to it. His ...

Everywhere she goes, PBS CEO Paula Kerger makes the preposterous claim that there's "nothing more American than PBS." That's not an answer to anyone asking about the network's inevitable left-wing tilt. It's a way of changing the subject. Last week, PBS and San Francisco PBS station KQED ...