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Not for the first time, President Trump has perverted the presidential pardon power to benefit undeserving recipients with whom he shares a personal or political affinity. On Tuesday, the White House announced that Trump ...Read more

It should not surprise anyone that President Donald Trump would commute former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's prison sentence. Corrupt politicians do favors for other corrupt politicians all the time.

Trump and ...Read more

If the public health consequences in China of the new coronavirus aren't yet entirely clear, its ultimate political consequences are even murkier.

The reason is rooted in the so-called "mandate of heaven," a concept ...Read more

In the context of coronavirus, impeachment, caucuses, primaries and spring training, the bankruptcy of McClatchy, America's second-largest newspaper chain, could not be expected to garner much attention. But such matters ...Read more

"Vegan -- isn't that a white thing?"

For longer than I care to remember, this was a common response from anyone who learned about my vegan lifestyle. When hearing the word "vegan," they probably thought up images of hip, ...Read more

These are desperate times for Los Angeles.

Even as the city, county and state have been pouring money into housing and services, the number of people living on the street has gone steadily up. More and more of them are ...Read more

In a famous experiment that was launched in an unused lot near his home in Towson in the 1940s, Johns Hopkins behavioral researcher John B. Calhoun discovered that when rodent populations were crowded together, they ...Read more

Most of us have probably seen the viral video of the airline passenger repeatedly punching the back of the reclined seat in front of him. Much like the photo of the striped dress from five years ago, which appeared blue ...Read more

All of the Democratic candidates for president are well qualified, and all of them could potentially defeat President Donald Trump, but not one of them has made a genuine effort to unite some core ideas of moderates and ...Read more

CHICAGO -- After more than one false alarm raised and dashed the hopes of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, President Donald Trump finally answered his pleas and commuted Blagojevich's 14-year prison term Tuesday, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Members of President Donald Trump's reelection team and some of the GOP's biggest fundraisers are discussing a new goal of raising an extra $1 billion to compete with Michael Bloomberg's record campaign ...Read more

America is a hot mess right now. Rather than feeling humbled as only the third impeached president in U.S. history, President Trump -- with the democracy-dies-in-broad-daylight help of his Roy Cohn-flavored attorney ...Read more