The overwhelming majority of Americans support voter ID requirements because they instill confidence in our elections. Showing an ID when you help pick the next president is just plain common sense.

But at a time when concerns about foreign interference in our elections are high, ID requirements also help protect the integrity of our electoral ...Read more

The more federal authorities investigate dangers associated with vaping, the more we discover how much we do not know about the dangers of this suddenly popular habit.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently revealed that its investigation into the serious lung conditions related to vaping that began emerging last year have been...Read more

On Jan. 17, Michelle Obama's birthday, the Trump administration proposed rollbacks in nutrition standards in the school meal program. Under the proposal, legumes and potatoes will count as vegetables, fewer fruits will be served at breakfast and a la carte meals will allow students to select items high in fat.

The result will be increased ...Read more

Miami just stirred things up in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. But the jury's still out on whether that's a good thing.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg could be an attractive presidential candidate for core Miami voters who are as #NeverBernie as they are #NeverTrump -- and are unimpressed by the rest of the ...Read more

It's another election year, which means that voter ID laws are back in the news.

Already, Kentucky Republican legislators introduced a new bill requiring voters to present a limited form of ID when they show up to the polls before casting a ballot. If passed, the voter ID law, which is supported by Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams, ...Read more

Iowa gave Barack Obama a resounding 9.5-point victory over John McCain in 2008. Four years later, Obama's margin shrunk to 5.8 points against Mitt Romney. But in 2016, something odd happened.

Donald Trump carried Iowa by 9.4 points -- a dramatic change in the state's recent voting behavior and close to the same winning margin as Obama's eight ...Read more

Today we are focusing, for once, on a ray of good news in the midst of this very ugly time.

As the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump root-canals its way into our living rooms, one of the most tortuous dilemmas that the deciders are arguing about is whether or not former national security adviser John Bolton will be summoned to ...Read more

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up a case that is poised to have far-reaching effects on religious liberty. At issue are the state laws known as Blaine Amendments, which prohibit the use of government funding to benefit religious schools and other organizations.

These laws have pernicious anti-immigrant origins. The "brown" people ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- If you were a juror in a trial and the judge said there would be no evidence and no witnesses because the defendant didn't want them, you would be nonplussed.

Well, you aren't one of the Senate's 53 Republicans, who voted six times against demanding White House documents and witnesses that could prove whether or not the president ...Read more

Abraham Lincoln closed the Gettysburg Address on a hopeful note, promising a "new birth of freedom" so that "government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Today, as the Democrats push their partisan impeachment forward in the Senate chamber, the sentiments expressed so eloquently by a beleaguered ...Read more

One side is primarily playing to history, while the other is playing to right-wing cable TV and President Donald Trump's base. That's the media story within the televised impeachment trial of Trump in the Senate this week. And it's much more engaging than I expected.

The big battle, of course, is whether or not the Senate will find Trump guilty...Read more

By definition, the impeachment trial of President Trump that began in earnest Tuesday was a historic occasion, only the third such proceeding since the adoption of the Constitution. What remains unclear is whether the Republicans in the Senate will allow a fair and full trial, one that would enable them, if they chose, to seriously consider the ...Read more

Ever since Republicans began clamoring for Hunter Biden to testify in President Trump's impeachment hearings, I've wondered why Democrats didn't just say yes.

And now, according to the Washington Post, a few Senate Democrats are trying to make it happen, offering to support calling former Vice President Joe Biden's son to testify in the Senate ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Trial lawyers have an adage: If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your side, pound the law.

If neither is on your side, pound the table.

In the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the House Democrats -- the prosecution -- are mostly pounding the facts. The heart of their brief is a well-told ...Read more

President Donald Trump's legal defense is putting a lot of weight on a brand-new memo from the Office of Legal Counsel. In fact, the memo appears to have been written specifically as part of the president's defense strategy. That's noteworthy because the OLC is part of the Department of Justice: It's supposed to be legally independent, not ...Read more

President Donald Trump's sprawling corruption may never be brought under lawful control, especially with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acting as inside man in Trump's impeachment trial. But if Trump is ever to be punished for his many abuses of power, it just might be for his disregard of the nation's ineffectual and much-maligned body ...Read more