The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Sept. 25:

The United States has long allowed people to remain in this country if their home nations are beset by war or natural disaster while they're here. It is one of the great humanitarian features of an often-dysfunctional and too frequently coldhearted immigration system...Read more

The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday, Sept. 24:

There are 29 active national emergencies in place today in the United States. The latest is the one that President Donald Trump declared on Aug. 10: "The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I am saying, officially, right now, it is an emergency. It's a national ...Read more

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Monday, Sept. 25:

When Hurricane Harvey arrived in southeast Texas, it inflicted damage on a vast scale, upending the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Some of them ended up being sheltered and fed in churches that opened their doors to the victims. But now that the federal ...Read more

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Monday, Sept. 25:

For most of last week, the country had anticipated a typical fall Sunday of NFL football games.

That changed after Friday night when President Donald Trump issued a bizarre challenge that turned every National Football League pregame ceremony into a referendum on the ...Read more

The following editorial is to appear in The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday, Sept. 26:

So far as we know, no NFL players spat on or burned the flag this weekend. They didn't drag it on the ground or tear it apart. When the national anthem was performed before games, they did not turn their backs or talk or make rude gestures. Some linked arms in a ...Read more

Maybe we have finally established a lasting legislative principle for both parties: Don't ever again try to pass major health care legislation using parliamentary gimmicks to avoid a filibuster.

The Democrats, under Barack Obama, followed this route in 2010 after they lost their filibuster-proof Senate majority when Republican Scott Brown ...Read more

A word association test might readily pair these two words: "Trump" and "deal."

In fact, most Americans probably identify President Trump with "The Art of the Deal," the ghostwritten book that contributed considerably to Trump's notoriety long before he became a politician. And a common theme of Trump's campaign relied on two assertions about ...Read more

There seems to be no end to nuclear crises these days.

As North Korea's Kim Jong Un plays nuclear chicken with the great powers, another dangerous moment is approaching. The world awaits President Trump's decision -- due Oct. 15 -- on how he will handle the 2015 deal with Tehran that curbed Iran's nuclear program in return for the lifting of ...Read more

A long list of healthcare experts says the Republican bill to dismantle most of President Obama's health insurance program would be a disaster. The American Medical Association is against it. Insurance providers are against it. Patient groups are against it. Sen. Bill Cassidy's bill, coauthored with Sen. Lindsey Graham, would cut federal ...Read more

America stands in desperate need of tax reform.

Every year as they try to make ends meet, families and small businesses are up against a 74,000-page tax code. The code is the product of decades of special-interest carve-outs and schemes that are impossible to comply with.

It's time to start fresh. Americans needs Congress to step up and ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe, this is for those of you born after "the valley of the shadow," when vicious hordes attacked the sovereignty of this country by invading the American Embassy in Tehran.

It was a time when a novice like the one now governing in the White House faced a tough decision: whether to speak softly or use...Read more

Take it easy, you want to advise President Donald Trump when he says in a United Nations speech that the United States is going to "totally destroy" North Korea if it attacks us or our allies. But there is something you want to add.

Don't take it as easy as presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama, who irresponsibly set us up for long-lasting ...Read more

While other people worried about what President Donald Trump meant when he discussed "sovereignty," and while other people wrung their hands and mopped their brows because he wasn't being polite to North Korea, seated in the front row at his inaugural speech to the United Nations, I heard this:

"It is a massive source of embarrassment to the ...Read more

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, Sept. 22:

Germany's national election Sunday has all the makings of a fait accompli. Chancellor Angela Merkel is on track to gain her fourth term, which would give her 16 years as Germany's leader. Martin Schulz, her closest rival and leader of the center-left Social Democrats, ...Read more

With momentum building for single-payer health care among Democratic voters and a growing number of 2020 hopefuls, Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled a "Medicare for All" bill last week. Immediately, a number of pundits denounced the legislation as an "unrealistic" "bloated" "disaster" full of "magic math."

Some of the naysayers are conservatives who...Read more

The debate over the future of our nation's Confederate past has been raging for some time.

And while the tactics and rhetoric of some who favor tearing down statues and renaming city streets, parks and buildings has ranged from inappropriate to outrageous, the arguments made by their more reasonable allies are worth considering.

It is more ...Read more

The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, Sept. 21:

President Donald Trump made an impression in his Tuesday speech to the U.N. General Assembly. These speeches by heads of government and state, given the forum and attendance of world leaders and international figures, can be considered a statement of a nation...Read more