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The bizarre story of Manti Te’o, the Notre Dame football player, and his dying girlfriend gives new meaning to the term “fantasy football.” Te’o very nearly rode the heart-rending story...

Say a prayer. Put up a tombstone that reads “R.I.P.” for three prevailing political conventional wisdoms that seem to be quickly biting the dust. The first is that President Barack...

With a bow to the past, an arc toward the future and a steady eye on his place in history, Barack Obama opened his second term with a call to...

Oh, how far-removed we are from what now seems like the “innocent” Bill Clinton days when all we had to worry about was the various definitions of the word “is”...

The headlines say President Obama has “taken on the gun lobby,” but actually, he has taken on our culture of violence, including the violent rhetoric that accompanies any attempt to...

“It’s no wonder many Americans are uneasy about the way President Obama is growing our government and eroding our liberties. Aren’t most Americans conservative?” “That is correct. Every year, Gallup...

A former British airlines worker was just told by a European human-rights court that she does, in fact, have the right to wear a crucifix on her neck. That such...

Heroes come in all colors, sizes and genders. They speak different languages and overcome different obstacles, but they have one thing in common: They teach the old-fashioned virtues of courage,...

Aaron Swartz wanted nothing more than to change the world. He was doing just that until he ended his own life, at the age of 26, on Jan. 11. Aaron...

What do Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, David Gregory of “Meet the Press” and President Obama have in common — besides their liberal politics? They all send their kids to...

The chicken hawks are out in force these days, attacking Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s choice for Secretary of Defense. He’s too reluctant to use force, they say. He favors...

Politically speaking, we live by caricature. Particularly in the age of satellite TV news and Internet fulmination, the temptation is to melodrama. So I wasn’t terribly surprised to read a...

Washington’s latest kerfuffle, at a time when political kerfuffling is epidemic, concerns the number of women in President Obama’s inner circle. Some say there are too few. A clutch of...

Republicans, and many Democrats, are upset by the prospect of so-called sequestration cuts to the nation’s defense budget. Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is so alarmed that the day before the...

FONTANA, Ca. — It was April 9, 2005 when I met the young person who impressed me so much I’d talk about him for 7 years. I was moderating a...