WASHINGTON -- Republicans who are thinking about opposing President Trump in the 2020 primaries are facing the hardest of political choices.

WASHINGTON -- Republican Gov. Rick Scott leads Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes in the Florida Senate race. A margin of victory that large has never be overturned in a recount. According to FairVote, the average vote shift in statewide general election recounts is a meager 282 vot…

WASHINGTON -- In the hierarchy of pleasures, schadenfreude ranks second only to dry martinis at dusk, so conservatives are enjoying Harvard's entanglement with two things it has not sufficiently questioned -- regulatory government and progressive sentiment. The trial that recently ended in B…

WASHINGTON -- It has been long rumored that the Republican Party has a woman problem, so much so that a few years ago GOP congressmen sent aides to classes on how to talk to and about women.

WASHINGTON -- When French President Emmanuel Macron denounced populist nationalism this week and called on world leaders to support institutions such as the United Nations that defend "the common good of the world," liberal elites cheered. The speech was seen as a rebuke of President Trump, …

In an interview following the premier of Spider-Man the big-screen movie, Lee said he designed Spider-Man’s costume to fully cover his body because Lee wanted black, Hispanic and Asian boys and girls to believe they, too, could be Spider-Man, that they, too, could be the hero.

House Democrats won last Tuesday, but how big that win turns out to be will depend on what they do with it.

WASHINGTON -- Those of us who participated in the 2000 presidential election are getting political PTSD from the current gubernatorial and senatorial recounts in Florida. President George W. Bush was eventually declared winner in the Sunshine State (and thus the election) by 537 votes out of…

WASHINGTON -- In mob movies they call it "going to the mattresses"-- getting ready for war.

WASHINGTON -- Brett Kavanaugh must have been smiling as the returns came in on Election Day, because it is now clear that the Democrats' campaign to destroy him will go down as a massive blunder. It failed to keep Kavanaugh off the court. It cost Democrats their chance to regain control of t…

WASHINGTON -- In the previous 50 years, the state of Mississippi has validated Lord Tennyson's belief that "men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." Now the state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for 20 more days to provide the court with a defense of the propo…

WASHINGTON -- It wasn't a blue trickle, but nor was it a tsunami. Rather, the midterm elections brought a gentle, purplish wave of mostly center-leaning Democrats whose profiles suggest a welcome infusion of professionalism and balance to a disorderly House.

Caravan or invasion?

Alabamians, like all Americans, take time on Veterans Day each year to honor those who have served our country and sacrificed to keep all of us free. But we should treat this holiday as more than a chance to say “thank you.” It also should be an occasion to reflect on our national obligation…

WASHINGTON -- In the spirit of the political season, I want to claim credit for the most STUPENDOUS, INSIGHTFUL and POWERFUL political strategy since Pericles bound the DELIAN LEAGUE into an empire to resist THE PERSIANS. I urged voters to support reasonable Republican candidates in the Sena…

WASHINGTON -- America's body politic has recently been scarred by excruciating political shingles, and 2018 campaigning was equivalent to acid reflux. But Tuesday's elections indicated that some political antibodies are strengthening the nation's immune system.

WASHINGTON -- The midterm elections are finally over, more or less, and we got what we got -- Donald Trump is still president.

WASHINGTON -- When the president announced that he was sending the U.S. military to help secure our southern border, he received bipartisan praise from members of Congress. The Washington Post reported that the move was seen as "smart politics." The year was 2011, and the president was Barac…

When Robert Bowers murdered 11 people Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, it became the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. It has shocked and dismayed Jews, Christians and people of goodwill across the United States. The brutality and inhumanity of this act of…

WASHINGTON -- Until last week it seemed that the Division 1 college basketball industry could produce nothing more risible than its pieties about cherishing the amateurism of the "student-athletes" who generate, but get mere crumbs of, the industry's billions. Last week, however, a New York …

WASHINGTON -- President Trump and the Republican Party have run the most racist national political campaign since the 1968 presidential bid of segregationist George Wallace. We shall soon see how much the country has changed in 50 years -- and in what direction.

YORK, Pa. — A two-year-old partnership of cops and clergy was unveiled to the community for the first time last Thursday night during a town hall-style meeting at Logos Academy charter school in York County, Pennsylvania.

The thousands of people walking from Central America to the United States border will be a major symbolic issue in the Nov. 6 election. The caravan has come to represent, for both political parties, a vote on who is morally right or wrong. This election has become a census of how divided we are.