Opinion, Politics
July 1, 2026
To the Editor: I’ve been trying to keep up with all these new goings-on in the world. Now that we have this new system of government, we don’t need to decide right from wrong. We put the right to make...
Don’t forget the broader context of the Iranian memorandum
Opinion, Politics
June 30, 2026
The tentative “memorandum of understanding” with Iran has caused glee on the Left and furor among many on the Right. The Left might welcome “peace,” but surely not as much as it enjoys infighting on t...
Opinion, Politics
June 29, 2026
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN local government and Immigration and Customs Enforcement has received renewed attention during the second Trump administration. Immigration enforcement has prompted protests, ...
Politics
June 29, 2026
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Louisiana on Saturday, giving President Donald Trump a win after he backed her to replace GOP Sen. Bill ...
Trump’s second term is a murky, embarrassing and costly spectacle
Opinion, Politics
June 27, 2026
Every time I get asked by a TV anchor what I think about the drama of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, my favorite “historical” headline from the Onion comes to mind: “World’s Largest Metaphor Hi...
The worst blunder
Opinion, Politics
June 26, 2026
“President Trump Lost This War” headlines a New York Times editorial. The New Yorker reports on “The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War.” Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, ...
Republicans hang on
Opinion, Politics
June 25, 2026
By a number of conventional measures, the Republican Party should be headed for a huge loss in this November’s House midterm elections. But some experts think the results will be much closer than orig...
Politics
By By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press 
June 22, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The relationship between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans neared a breaking point this week as he upended their efforts to speedily confirm one of his own nominees and s...
Politics
June 22, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as he struggled to explain wh...
Opinion, Politics
June 20, 2026
To the Editor: As one of the few relatives within the Trump family dynasty to write and speak openly of Donald J. Trump, we got a bird’s eye view from a lifetime of observations. Those come from Donal...
Iran deal renews question: Was this war necessary?
Opinion, Politics
June 18, 2026
It is perhaps the most fundamental question of the Iran war. If the goal of the war was to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and if the U.S. attack of June 21, 2025, either obliterated or ...
Politics
June 17, 2026
By SYLVIE CORBET, DARLENE SUPERVILLE AND AAMER MADHANI Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — U.S. allies at the Group of Seven summit of major industrialized democracies worked Tuesday to pu...
Stop destroying civilization!
Opinion, Politics
June 16, 2026
In the #MeToo years, the Left’s signature slogan was “Believe all women!” That directive was used to bolster Christine Blasey Ford’s preposterous and easily refuted 2018 allegations that some 35 years...
Politics
By By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press 
June 15, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats’ decision to let a key surveillance authority lapse comes as they are increasingly emboldened in their legislative fights against President Donald Trump, blocking ev...
Politics
By By BILL BARROW Associated Press 
June 15, 2026
ATLANTA (AP) — Days before the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia, President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Mike Collins over former football coach Derek Dooley, putting his stamp of approval on anoth...