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Presidents Trump and Obama both responded firmly and with dignity to the two mass shootings last weekend. President Trump , August 5, 10...

[Colin Woodard's map of 11 American nations] I just got back from another nation. According to Colin Woodard, author of American N...

Yes, President Obama said that if we like our health insurance, we can keep it .  Yes, that turned out to be false for a few million peo...

Opponents of Obamacare like to talk about how long it takes to get a hip replacement in, say, Canada (even though the Affordable Care Act ...

TIME magazine has put its brilliant long cover article, "Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us" (March 4, 2013), behind a paywall, s...

[The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir singing at President Obama's second inauguration] "Faith in America's Future" - that...

This is not a blog post about gun control. Everything that can possibly be said about that subject, pro or con, has already been said mill...

I'm having trouble understanding today's news about "Florida based restaurant boss John Metz, who runs approximately 40 Denny...

I believe we can seize this future together -- because we are not as divided as our politics suggest; we're not as cynical as the pund...

Vice-President Aaron Burr spoils his political career by killing former treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton. Yesterday during the Pra...

Albrecht Dürer, ca 1497-98 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Tonight's debate between President Obama and Governor Romney is ab...

1. Mitt Romney is a bully. We knew that. 2. Barack Obama doesn't know how to stand up to bullies. We knew that too. 3. Jim Lehrer real...