WASHINGTON -- Ted Cruz is not going to win Senator Congeniality. Not that he cares. The newly arrived Texas Republican has come out, well, guns blazing -- and not just on guns.

The traditional stance for a freshman senator is to hold back a bit. ...

WASHINGTON -- Several years ago, at my daughter's Bat Mitzvah, three generations of women in our family wore tallit, the Jewish prayer shawl traditionally worn by men. So did the rabbi, also a woman.

In Israel, this behavior can get you arrested....

WASHINGTON -- Shakespeare would have loved this epilogue.

The bones of his most reviled villain, Richard III, unearthed in the decidedly unkingly venue of a public parking lot. The monarch's feet were missing -- probably chopped off during the ...

WASHINGTON -- The latest weapon in the war against reasonable restrictions on access to guns is the straw woman. Don't fall for her.

This formulation would have you believe gun rights are women's rights, and that limits on guns would harm women ...

WASHINGTON -- At the dawn of a new presidential term and a new Congress, the answers to two overarching questions will shape the course of the next four years:

First, about Republicans: Are green shoots of sanity beginning to appear in the ...

WASHINGTON -- Melanne Verveer winces, ever so slightly, to hear women's rights described as Hillary Clinton's signature issue.

This reaction is rather odd since (1) it is indisputable that this is the secretary of state's priority and (2) Verveer...