WASHINGTON -- The Democratic Party establishment -- what's left of it, anyway -- is hoping someone can stop Bernie Sanders and his progressive horde from capturing the party's presidential nomination.

"I don't know how you win an election (at) 78 years old, screaming in a microphone about the revolution," said James Carville, a former aide to ...Read more

Many a gloomy doomsayer has gone to his grave disappointed because, despite threatening signs to the contrary, the ever-resilient earth persists. The sun still comes up, the seasons change and human beings endure.

Sophisticated civilizations have come and gone, but you would have gone broke betting on catastrophe on a global scale, even during ...Read more

It's egregious excess time. Old norms have gone into hiding, common sense has taken a walk, wisdom is on vacation and fundamental principles have been shooed out of the room. The center does not hold and neither does anything else, least of all Donald Trump, who spends his energetic days slipping and falling and then getting up to play the fool ...Read more

The United States needs a president who can heal the nation's deep political divide -- who can work with, and appeal to, members of both parties and independents.

Someone with a proven record of collaboration who can meaningfully address climate change, provide health care for all, achieve responsible gun control, resolve the bitterness over ...Read more

In 2015-16, more than three-fourths of the public schools around the country conducted drills to teach students how to react to a shooter on campus, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In the four years since then, many additional horrifying shootings -- especially the killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...Read more

Some crimes take only minutes, even seconds, to execute. Now imagine how many seconds Donald Trump has between this moment and Election Day.

For Democrats, too, November is far away. But what Trump does in the months ahead will be at least as important to the presidential contest as what Democrats do. There are plenty of crimes to come.

The ...Read more

First there was Brexit.

Now there's Vexit.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has teamed up with Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. to encourage Virginia counties unhappy with their state government to secede and become part of West Virginia.

Secession is not the answer. That's been tried in this country once before. We've come a long...Read more

In Washington, cynicism often passes for wisdom, and there was plenty of the former going around after Attorney General William Barr publicly rebuked the president for poking his nose where it doesn't belong. Cynics can never be satisfied, but we take Barr's comments as not only fully justified but most likely sincere.

The background: On Monday...Read more

Four principled prosecutors resigned from the Roger Stone case on Feb. 11. They did so rather than be complicit in Donald Trump's attempt to soften the sentence for Stone, his underling who was convicted of crimes in a case arising from the Mueller investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference.

Even more than the past resignations on ...Read more

In South Florida, Valentine's Day tugs at the heart.

On Feb. 14, 2018, a mentally disturbed teen walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland and shot 34 students and staff, killing 17 and forever scarring a community.

The school's student survivors found passion in their grief, and two years later they have made a difference in the ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas -- During an MSNBC town hall on abortion rights last weekend, Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders was asked if he thought there was room in his party for pro-lifers.

His response? No.

"Being pro-choice is an absolutely essential part of being a Democrat," he said.

His comments were predictable, even banal for...Read more

California had the right idea when it moved its presidential primaries from June to March. The nation's most populous state needs to be relevant in the process of choosing the nominees for the two major political parties.

But California, unfortunately, didn't only switch its presidential primary. It also moved its state and congressional ...Read more

Nonprofits and organizations using a .org domain should have concerns over an impending sale that could threaten the stability of their digital operations.

The concerns are significant enough that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers should exercise its authority to intervene.

The Internet Society, or ISOC, a nonprofit group...Read more

A free society cannot function without vibrant professional newspapers. In light of that truism, the latest dire news for the news business -- that McClatchy newspapers, publisher of The Kansas City Star and almost 30 other newspapers in 14 states across America, is filing for bankruptcy -- should worry every American who cares about our ...Read more

Lawmakers appeared to breathe new life into the 97-year-old Equal Rights Amendment on Thursday, when 227 House Democrats and five Republicans voted to remove a 1982 deadline for its passage.

The move opens the door for the issue to be taken up in the U.S. Senate, where Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of ...Read more