It’s not often that I agree with Attorney General Todd Blanche. But when he was asked last week about the Two-Dan-Sullivans controversy in Alaska, he said, “If it’s cheating, if it’s fraud, is it illegal? And the answer is it certainly should be.”

I agree. At least I think I do. Blanche’s answer isn’t very precise. Cheating and ...Read more

If a reporter for the Times of Mars covering the recent elections in Israel were to assess the results, she might file a story that would get this headline: “Historic Day: Arab Parties Score Decisive Win. Netanyahu Is Out.” She would note that there were three major blocs: the right-wing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with 53...Read more

Jesus said a lot about prayer in the New Testament. Pray for those who hate you. Pray privately, not publicly "as the hypocrites are," and "use not vain repetitions." Pray to not enter into temptation. Pray in humility.

He sure as hell didn't say anything about praying while serving as a tyrant's photo op, as a dozen Catholic bishops did last ...Read more

You may hear the phrase "Epstein files" and feel overcome by a certain strain of repetitive news fatigue.

It's not that Jeffrey Epstein's terrible crimes have diminished over time, or that his survivors can ever be made whole. It's that the massive scandal has spun off in so many directions that it's almost impossible to get your arms around ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Xavier Becerra hasn’t even been elected yet — officially, anyway — and I am already bored.

The Democrat merely seemed to be going through the motions in a plodding gubernatorial campaign he couldn’t possibly lose.

That said, it isn’t a governor’s job to excite any journalist or to entertain the public.

It�...Read more

The Big Three domestic automakers reported financial results this month and, as usual, tried to put the best spin on their numbers. As General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra wrote in her letter to shareholders, “GM is performing well.”

How do you say “Yeah, right” in Chinese?

One of the most important economic engines for Illinois ...Read more

Over the past year, I have watched political powers tear into the very fiber of my community here in the District of Columbia. We have more troops on our streets than we have kids playing in our parks. We have more gaudy bronze statues erected by the administration of President Donald Trump than we have safe places for our neighbors to gather ...Read more

There’s little question Michigan’s U.S. Senate race is a bellwether for the entire nation in this midterm election.

The contest between Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is now the most expensive election in Michigan history, with $400 million, perhaps $500 million by Tuesday, in spending.

But how did Michigan’s open U.S...Read more

Time and again, cost-of-living crises like the current global energy-price shock confront governments with a dilemma: Either do the difficult work of identifying and supporting the vulnerable, or throw money at everyone whether they need it or not. Time and again, they overwhelmingly choose the latter.

It’s a habit they can no longer afford. ...Read more

As is the tradition, the first full week of October marked the announcements of Nobel Prizes, with a new one each day: Physiology and medicine Oct. 5, followed by physics, chemistry, literature and peace on successive days. The first three often are considered the science prizes, and since their start in 1901, scientists in the United States ...Read more

There’s a sentiment bubbling up in the U.S. and Europe propelled by deep urges to preserve group identity, urges that trace back to the origin of the species. This drive has been actively suppressed in many nations since World War II, and yet Germany’s far-right, anti-immigrant party AfD just triumphed in an eastern state election, and in ...Read more

Time and again, cost-of-living crises like the current global energy-price shock confront governments with a dilemma: Either do the difficult work of identifying and supporting the vulnerable, or throw money at everyone whether they need it or not. Time and again, they overwhelmingly choose the latter.

It’s a habit they can no longer afford. ...Read more

On America’s Election Night 10 years ago, I was a diplomat with the U.S. mission to Somalia in Mogadishu. We were hosting a watch party with local political, business and civil society leaders. U.S. elections offer a chance to showcase how democracy works and to share American values, so these watch parties are a public diplomacy staple at ...Read more

Radical socialists are threatening to lead the Democratic Party into ruin and potentially turn an expected blue wave into an eventual red nightmare.

The Democrats’ midterm celebration could be short-lived as they realize the party has lurched so far to the left to make their 2028 candidates unelectable.

There is a real danger that post-...Read more

The keys to early release for imprisoned Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could belong to two Republicans after Tuesday’s election.

Those candidates are House Speaker Lisa Demuth in the governor’s race and Ron Schutz, who is running for attorney general. If elected, the two would join state Supreme Court Chief Justice Theodora Gaï...Read more

A group of Catholic leaders came to the White House Oct. 22 to pray for President Donald Trump. Unbeknownst to the well-meaning Catholics, their prayer in the Oval Office was recorded and the White House shared it without permission, according to Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob.

Everything is on camera, and every photo and every recording has...Read more

The Florida International University students who were part of a private chat filled with racist, antisemitic and violent messages want a federal judge to believe it was all in jest.

They are fighting FIU’s decision to punish them, claiming that the university took their provocative jokes — including talking about beheading Black people —...Read more

Should America long for the days when a married president would not publicly catcall a woman who was not his wife and when the crowd would not cheer him for it?

At a rally in Michigan, President Donald Trump called attention to a “beautiful” feature of rapper Nicki Minaj, saying her derriere was “hard to miss.” The most revealing part ...Read more

The next governor of Florida will inherit the nation’s second-largest death row population — and with it, a legacy of profound questions about the remorseless and deeply flawed system that put so many people there.

In a recent statement, Republican Byron Donalds said he “firmly supports” the death penalty.

Democrat David Jolly has said...Read more