I am always amazed when, in the aftermath of a mass shooting such as the tragedy in Allen, Texas, both political parties expect their overly simplistic explanations to be taken seriously, their anemic policy proposals accepted as dependable solutions.

The expected announcement this week from Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that he is running for president will come as no surprise. While DeSantis won his reelection by 19 points and his accomplishments with the help of a Republican supermajority in the state legislature have been impre…

President Joe Biden delivered the commencement address last weekend at Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, D.C., from which many students have gone on to great success.

Looks like we’ll have Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to kick us around for a while yet. Sunday’s election has produced a runoff between him and opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, and results suggest that the president will go into the second round on May 28 feeling optimistic about hi…

Two television events in the last 10 days — a raucous Donald Trump rally billed as a CNN town hall and a far more sedate interview with President Joe Biden on MSNBC — offer a sobering preview of the 2024 presidential campaign.

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” — George Carlin

When he ran for president a second time in 1968 on the American Independent Party ticket, Alabama Gov. George Wallace said, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties.”

FORT WORTH, Texas — If you’re anything like me, you’ve done your best to blot out the COVID era from your memory.

The crowning of Charles III as king of England and the shrinking realm of the United Kingdom was not the only coronation taking place in the world.

That loud clucking sound we are hearing from “sanctuary cities” and other cities run by Democrats is the consequence of lax immigration policies coming home to roost.

Pronouns came up in conversation recently.

The very term “debt limit” makes a mockery of any kind of responsible budgeting. Each time the government reaches the “limit” it gets raised with the familiar scenarios that include threats of a government shutdown (an idea that increasingly appeals to some conservatives) and the claim that …

At long last, President Joe Biden has made it official that he is running for reelection in what he portrayed as “a generational moment for Americans across the country to stand up and fight for our democracy and freedoms.”

JERUSALEM — Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures. (Psalm 90:10)

Sixty years ago, a Baptist minister sat in a Southern jail cell and penned the most important written statement of the civil rights movement.