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At least Romney had binders. Binders full of qualified women to fill cabinet positions, that is. Democrats mercilessly pounded Romney for the binders comment he made during the 2012 presidential...

Apologists for inequality have a standard retort to anyone who calls for a more equal distribution of the world’s treasure. If you took all the wealth of the wealthy and...

In Washington, a new gang has been born. The Gang of Eight on immigration is here to tell us that we have succeeded in not enforcing the law so persistently...

I don’t think President Barack Obama gave a good inaugural address this time. I think it was a great one. He began with the principles of freedom and equality that...

Smile, you’re the most powerful person on earth. Only 43 men have posed for an official presidential portrait or photo. What ran through their minds? I must have a stern...

Now that the hill of mud the GOP piled on Hillary Clinton has been climbed through with such bright colors remaining in place, and she remains plenty popular enough to...

Will somebody please tell me what that Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama joint interview — no, make that love-fest — on “60 Minutes” was about? The two of them were almost giggling...

Can the Republican Party rebrand itself after its big 2012 national election defeat, loss of growing demographic groups, and polls indicating many perceive it as out of touch and too...

The Republican National Committee chose to hold its recent winter meeting in Charlotte because North Carolina was a rare bright spot in last year’s presidential election. Although it was the...

Whenever a Texas Republican makes the national news for saying that “ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns,” for alerting Anderson Cooper to the danger posed by “terror babies,” or for...

“We must act,” President Obama declared in his inaugural address. A critical part of his strategy is harnessing the energy and enthusiasm of his campaign supporters to promote his legislative...

“We’ve been wandering in the desert for 40 years,” declared Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley. It was an ever-present reflection during the week that marked four decades of Roe v. Wade,...

If you’re the average person, you say things like “I wish they’d bring back ‘ABC’s Wide World of Sports’ and full-service gas stations.” If you’re more like Harvard University geneticist...

I’m a marathon runner. A few years ago my coach was diagnosed with cancer. The first thing his ragged team of runners did was sign him up with Livestrong. Through...

Phil Mickelson choked on a gimme putt this week, but it wasn’t on a golf course. According to the AP’s golf writer, America’s most popular golfer “put his popularity on...