The relationship between the United States and Israel is usually seen as "special" because of technical matters. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel and the U.S. share vitally important intelligence and technology. But what about shared values? Shortly after America's ...

Trump is overplaying his hand. Not just by usurping the powers of Congress and ignoring Supreme Court rulings. Not just abducting people who are legally in the United States but have put their name to opinion pieces Trump doesn't like and trucking them off to "detention" facilities. Not just ...

A left-wing legal group with the misleading name Democracy Forward is proving to be the biggest obstacle to translating President Donald Trump's massive election victory into real change. The group's mission is to thwart the decisions of the 77 million voters who supported Trump for ...

As the late senator from Washington state, Warren Magnuson, who served for more than 30 years in Congress, once said, "All that each industry seeks is a fair advantage over its rivals." Wilt Chamberlain had a fair advantage on the basketball court because he stood 7-foot-1. It allowed him to ...

No sooner had the first American pope been selected Thursday than a modern tradition unfolded: the scrubbing of Robert Francis Prevost’s X feed. Previously a little-known cardinal from the Chicago area, Prevost was selected by his brother cardinals after several rounds of voting to lead the ...

Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in "Coriolanus" and other plays. A personal favorite of mine was "Fiorello!", a 1959 musical about New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. What happened in Newark last week was political theater at its ...