ANCHORAGE, Alaska − From the moment Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, was made aware of the threat of COVID-19, he acted faster than mo…
I hear that Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s law clerks had to explain to her that her increasingly popular nickname, “Notorious RBG,” was a compliment.
Critics have equated the process of regulated utilities seeking rate hikes from the S.C. Public Service Commission to a game – always asking f…
In general, my husband and I have adhered to the quarantine rules to protect ourselves from encountering the virus.
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Recently, a group of college students challenged me, asking, “Why are you conservatives so into the Constitution and all this ‘originalist’ stuff?”
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives conservatives and Republicans what they claim to have wanted since judicial act…
Election Day is Nov. 3, and it is time to make plans to get out and vote.
It’s gotten so bad in the caldron of American politics that you wonder whether people are itching to argue about the color of the sky.
Over the next two years, several hundred acres of land near Early Branch, South Carolina, will be transformed into greenhouses for farming.
There was a time in America, unknown or not experienced by people under the age of 50, when politics was a contact sport played with mostly ac…
As I was preparing last week for my Citizens Column, I was considering the ongoing dilemma of COVID-19 and the upcoming election this November…
These days it's easy to forget that there are still good people walking among us, good Samaritans, if you will.
The announcement Wednesday of U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan marks another step forward by President Donald Trump to give th…
On hearing that President Trump sat for 18 interviews with Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, my first reaction was, “What the. …” Why Woodward?
As marriages of convenience go, Chicago’s crime-fighting partnership with the Trump administration looks awkward at best, strikingly in need o…
The right to vote is among the most sacred rights we have as Americans. It is fundamental to our democracy.
America is coarser these days thanks, in part, to the politics of vitriol, greed to make a fast buck and the often self-absorbed bubble of the…
The cable networks, including Fox News, could talk of little else Labor Day weekend but the Atlantic magazine piece by Jeffrey Goldberg allegi…
In response to credible reports that President Donald Trump has derided fallen U.S. soldiers as “losers” and “suckers,” the least I could do i…
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A number of Northern California wildfires sent a thick, sometimes orange-glowing haze over the state Wednesday that left the Bay Area in an ee…
A few years ago I wrote a poem for my late Uncle Andrew’s obituary. It started, “Death is not a stranger but it gets stranger every day becaus…
Those among us who are in leadership positions have been challenged more than ever in our lifetime to utilize our resources in a manner that b…
In an election year, you can’t go a day without hearing some politician somewhere cry out for reform of the nation’s health care system. Even …
I am no longer surprised at the depths to which some people will sink in these fraught and tortured moments.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports the American government will soon reach a debt level equaling its entire gross domestic pr…
Shocking video of a Black Chicago man naked, handcuffed and losing consciousness at the hands of white police officers in Rochester, New York,…
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