John L. Micek: Americans are proud to be getting dumber
A North Carolina man walks into a popular Washington D.C. pizzeria and opens fire, telling police upon his inevitable arrest that he came to...
Carl P. Leubsdorf: What Nixon and Watergate can teach us about Trump’s travails
As a journalist who lived through the traumas of the Watergate scandal more than four decades ago, I’m often asked to list the parallels...
Catherine Rampell: Feel-good ideas need hardheaded examination
WASHINGTON — Extracting more money from evil, exploitative capitalists has become a rallying cry for much of the grass-roots left. In the meantime, though,...
Cal Thomas: Sanctuary cities vs. hideouts
In biblical times, a sanctuary city was a place where someone who had committed unintentional manslaughter could find refuge from “the avenger of blood.”...
Ruben Navarrette: Affirmative action has overstayed its welcome
SAN DIEGO — Color me surprised. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and I finally agree on something, albeit with radically different motives. It’s time to...
John M. Crisp: Citizens respond to the malady in the White House
Two years ago, my former governor, Rick Perry, called Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency a “cancer.” But this was during the primary season,...
George Will: The GOP’s Southern Gothic page-turner
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the...
Amanda Knox: Michelle Carter deserves sympathy and help, not prison
Twenty-year-old Michelle Carter was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Thursday after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for her involvement in...
Lori Borgman: When a full staff adds up to 1
Someone called the other day and asked to speak to me. She was surprised when I said that it was me. Sounding disappointed, she...
Mark Figley: Losing the war on illegal opiods
In 2016, drug overdoses claimed nearly 60,000 lives in the United States; roughly the number of Americans that were killed in the Vietnam War....
