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What today's fascists don't understand

Ann Coulter, the right-wing provocateur, was invited to speak at the University of California, Berkeley, recently, which infuriated campus militants...  Read more

GOP considers auto-enrollment as part of Obamacare replacement plan

The plans would come with high deductibles but shield patients from paying more than a certain amount if they face a medical emergency...  Read more

Even as Day 100 Nears, Don't Expect Obamacare to Get Repealed Yet

Trump's First 100 Days: The administration's odd shutdown calculus, and tax reform details coming soon...  Read more

Trump could spell trouble for GOP in 2018

The non-partisan Cook Political report has rated 36 House GOP seats as "competitive," in the next general election, although only one of those, the seat held by Rep. Darrell Issa, of California, is considered a toss-up and 26 GOP-held seats are considered "likely" to stay Republican...  Read more

Theresa May is about to become the most powerful leader in Europe

I suppose the Margaret Thatcher comparisons are inevitable. Britain has had only one other female prime minister, and she was also a tough-minded Tory...  Read more

100 Days: Trump climbs the learning curve

President Trump's newness to politics may also explain the strangest aspect of the transition and his first 100 days, which has been on Russia...  Read more

Georgia's 6th District is ground zero for Democrats looking to hurt Trump in 2018

Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel are squaring off in a June 20 runoff to succeed Tom Price...  Read more

Tillerson Slams Nuclear Deal after State Department Certifies Iranian Compliance

A proliferation expert suggests the certification was made to comply with law and avoid a crisis while reviewing its Iran policy...  Read more

FERC needs a quorum

For more than two months, our five organizations have worked tirelessly – both in concert and individually – to urge the Trump Administration and Congress to re-establish a quorum of at least three commissioners at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)...  Read more

How Trump can squeeze Venezuela's tyranny

A regime that steals from American companies and encourages street violence against dissidents deserves to be cut off from the community of nations...  Read more

White House, Republican leadership downplay chances of quick healthcare deal

With few legislative accomplishments to tout at the end of the 100-day period, Trump's team has worked during recess on a potential healthcare deal...  Read more

On Al-Qaeda, Iran speaks with forked tongue

Iranian leaders were quick to criticize the April 7, 2017 U.S. missile strike against a Syrian airbase near Homs, that followed dictator Bashar al-Assad's use of sarin gas against his own people...  Read more

What on Earth Is Going on at the Claremont Colleges?

Five campuses, five boiling cauldrons of hostility to free speech...  Read more

Utah Republicans jockey to replace Chaffetz

The field of candidates is likely to take shape over the next 30 to 45 days...  Read more

Time for the GOP to get moving

My previous column ("The Trump Era's 5 Emerging Constituencies") critiqued the emerging political constituencies of the Trump era. Today's chronicles the major challenges confronting our two major parties as a divided nation seeks to find its way forward.  Read more

Justice Kennedy, tear down this wall

Battles over religious liberty sometimes resemble a schoolyard brawl, with adversaries hurling childish taunts at one another and hulking bullies preying on smaller, weaker opponents — think of the Obama administration's vicious and unrelenting attacks on the Little Sisters of the Poor...  Read more

Georgia race headed to runoff as GOP holds Ossoff below 50 percent

Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff fell below the 50 percent marker in Tuesday's special election, setting up a runoff on June 20 for Georgia's sixth congressional district...  Read more

With an Eye Toward Brexit, Britain Will Have a Snap Election on June 8

In April, May looks forward to June...  Read more