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The Speaker of the House of Representatives is quitting, not forced out by scandal or defeated for re-election, but quitting after only a li...
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives is quitting, not forced out by scandal or defeated for re-election, but quitting after only a li...

More than 40 years ago Congress undertook two major investigations into the nation’s intelligence agencies – the House investigation became...

Since the 2016 presidential election various groups that keep track of white supremacist political activity – the Southern Poverty Law Cente...

American foreign and domestic policy is shaped by many factors, but perhaps none is more important or more pervasive than oil – Big Oil. In...

The business of leaking government secrets has a long, long history and the whole subject of leaking and leaks is complicated. Why do leaks...

Seventy-five years ago a president signed an Executive Order that resulted in the relocation and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans...

Despite what they say almost every politician dislikes the press – too many pesky, probing questions and that constant effort to check real...

It is not likely that many of us have dropped a reference to the Constitution’s emoluments clause into casual conversation. But the once obs...

The founders of the great American experiment so valued dissent that they wrote the idea into the First Amendment to the Constitution. But w...

Imagine Winston Churchill as a houseguest. Then imagine him as a houseguest at Christmas…in the White House…while the world is at war. In la...

The election is over, but the debate about journalism, politics, facts and fakes roars on. So just what is the state of political journalism...

Why has the U.S. Senate gone from the world’s greatest deliberative body to the country’s most dysfunctional political institution? The answ...

How do we usher out “lame duck” presidents and bring on the victors? Often with stumbles and mistakes. The interval between lame duck Herber...

Appointing judges has always been an overtly political process, after all politicians are involved, but the process has not always been as c...

Barry Goldwater, the conservative Republican senator from Arizona, lost the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon Johnson in one of great lan...
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