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The U.S. Supreme Court – with its six conservative justices, three of whom were nominated by President Donald Trump – has recently reversed landmark decisions that have long guided American government and society. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Constitution’s promise that all those born here are citizens of the United States, regardless of the status of their parents.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices ...Read more

CHICAGO — Two independent candidates aiming to give voters more choices in the Illinois 4th Congressional District race are still fighting to keep their names on the November ballot — casualties, they say, of the same ...Read more

Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history. Dubbed a “geofence search,” officers obtain a...Read more

Happy 250th birthday to America and to all my fellow citizens. Let’s celebrate!

But first, let’s reflect for a moment on the state of our republic.

(If you read my columns regularly, you might assume that I’ll ...Read more

"It was to be a party of special magnificence!" — JRR Tolkien

America’s 250th birthday on July 4 is a glorious occasion. Some people may have a different view, but ignore the party-poopers. Let’s make “having ...Read more

As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, it’s worth reflecting on how much has changed—and how much we’ve left behind. We no longer rely on lamplighters to illuminate our streets or switchboard operators ...Read more

Growing up as a Christian, I frequently heard from other churchgoers how fortunate we were to live in a Christian nation. These days, I’m more likely to hear fellow Christians lament that the nation has fallen into ...Read more

As we wrote here last week, public safety must ultimately fall on the shoulders of Chicago mayors. More bureaucracy — in the form of the new stand-alone Department of Gun Violence Reduction — while well-intentioned, ...Read more

Following last week’s primary elections in which the rise of Democrat-Socialist candidates alarmed many longtime Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-4241141">Read more

The United States is struggling to ensure patients receive the care they need. The math is simple, and scary: more patients plus fewer caregivers equals a major crisis. The baby boomer generation is aging, and so is ...Read more

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court last week let President Donald Trump put another nail in the coffin of America’s humanitarian asylum program and allowed him to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 ...Read more

After the 1787 Constitutional Convention, American socialite Elizabeth Willing Powell asked Benjamin Franklin whether the founding leaders had just created a monarchy or a republic. Franklin famously answered, “A ...Read more

As Social Security hurtles toward insolvency, its path is a reflection of missed opportunity. In particular, many Democrats over the years have preferred performance demagoguery designed to score political points over the ...Read more

An old knock on renewable energy and other planet-friendly endeavors is that they can’t stand on their own without financial props from the government. Ironically, it took the second presidency of Donald Trump, in which ...Read more

When the World Health Organization declared the West African Ebola epidemic a global emergency in 2014, I sat with my wife, Julie, and said aloud what both of us were thinking: People needed to step forward to fight the ...Read more

Today we’re going to become investigative historians and re-purpose one of history’s most successful fact-finding moments.

Our mission is to find out why our commander-in-chief failed to better serve our chief ...Read more

Russia’s bloody, brutal and seemingly endless war on Ukraine has confused the world with its baffling momentum swings and surprising surges and countersurges.

This murky and dispiriting conflict has been made more ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump was handed a golden opportunity to upstage Gov. Gavin Newsom in Newsom’s own state on an issue of critical importance to Americans everywhere. But Trump naturally blew it.

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With the bombing paused and negotiations beginning, Donald Trump’s war has finally accomplished something considered unthinkable.

It has united red and blue America.

Everyone can find something in the Iran treaty ...Read more