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While talking to reporters on the White House lawn Wednesday about his plans for prosecuting a trade war with China, the president of the United States looked up briefly toward the heavens.

"I am the chosen one," Donald ...Read more

The latest economic news appears to be driving President Donald Trump into a deep emotional funk. As much as he likes to portray his economic management as a miracle that outpaces anything his predecessors accomplished, it...Read more

President Donald Trump's apparent view that Americans want a federal government that abandons humanitarian norms is once again on display this week with two more decisions about the treatment of detained unauthorized ...Read more

I recently went to a parents' meeting at my children's elementary school in the rural town of Aguacatan, Guatemala, a few hours from the Mexico border. As usual, I was one of the only men there.

This disparity has nothing...Read more

Headlines on the purported genetic basis for mental illness -- like this one from The Washington Post: "Some children born with the genetic risk for schizophrenia, scientists say" -- have been staples of scientific ...Read more

If you are a middle-class or poor parent, the college admissions scandal may seem like a steel door closing on your child's future. The very rich bribed their kids' way into elite schools, preventing average Americans from...Read more

That didn't last long.

For a while, it looked as though the distance between the parties had narrowed on the issue of criminal justice reform. Bipartisan cooperation passed the First Step Act, a small step indeed toward ...Read more

PARADISE, Calif. -- Surveying the charred ruins of a mobile-home park incinerated in November here in the deadliest wildfire in California history, Sen. Bernie Sanders said there could be a silver lining to the tragedy: ...Read more

DETROIT -- If you follow the inexhaustible torrent of bilious braggadocio that is Donald Trump's Twitter feed -- and honestly, what serious student of abnormal psychology can look away? -- then you know that the incumbent ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democrats beware: A huge majority of Americans believes impeaching President Donald Trump would fail and some believe it might even boost his reelection effort, according to a new Monmouth University poll.

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An old detail kept elbowing me, tugging at my sleeve like an annoying little kid, when President Donald Trump said he thought it might be a good idea to buy Greenland.

Then I went back to check on the map of the world as ...Read more

On Wednesday, America and all the world watched as yet another soap-operatic reality TV meltdown played out on our video screens.

This one wasn't another episode about the dysfunctional marriages of Beverly Hills ...Read more