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Recently, the student newspaper at an elite northeastern university analyzed the list of outside speakers invited to campus in order to assess where they stood politically. Two years in a row, it found that 93% of the speakers were on the left, and only 7% on the right.

Students in one class staunchly defended these percentages. One said ...Read more

This is not about Charlie Kirk. He was admirable as a debater and as a conservative who welcomed debate. Some of his utterances were reprehensible, but no one should die because of opinions.

This is about the 22-year-old who apparently shot and killed Kirk from a rooftop -- and also the 20-year-old who shot at Donald Trump during a ...Read more

The Trump administration is quietly using a program called 287(g) to turn local police and sheriff's departments into arms of its deportation machine.

This week, the Trump administration hit a milestone of 1,000 participating state and local agencies. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aggressively recruiting for this deportation-...Read more

From the get-go, President Donald Trump blamed the "radical left" for Charlie Kirk's death, even though the shooter's identity and motive were not yet known. Trump called for "all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree." Good, both sides, which...Read more

"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," Voltaire said. But not really. Stephen G. Tallentyre wrote it in his 1906 book about Voltaire, as a paraphrase of his attitude toward free speech. Actually, that's not true either: "Tallentyre" was a pseudonym. "He" was really a she: Evelyn Beatrice Hall.

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When Samantha Siegel's best friend took her to see an old live oak tree on Johns Island in South Carolina, she had no idea it was about to change her life. Samantha was a college student going through a hard time. Her friend just wanted to get her out of the house for a while. They went to see a tree estimated to be 300-400 years old and known ...Read more

A few months ago, I told a friend that maybe this whole Trump mess started with two Merle Haggard songs.

One was "The Fightin' Side of Me," and the other was "Okie from Muskogee," both anthems of a defiant, exclusive American identity that locked out "hippies" and any "squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fightin'."

"I ...Read more

Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record-- criminal or moral. There's no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by having done the time with good behavior, not by getting a college degree, not by apologizing. Other crimes don't, in themselves, warrant a life sentence, but put enough serious violations ...Read more

They couldn't even be bothered to write an opinion. The Supreme Court's six right-wing Trumpers issued a summary opinion staying a district court order, which had been upheld by the Court of Appeals, prohibiting "roving patrols" of ICE agents from stopping and seizing people based on their race and ethnicity.

That's right: The same Supreme ...Read more

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday sent shockwaves across the country and around the world, not only through its raw violence, with a single, deadly sniper shot, but as a hallmark of worsening political divisions wracking the United States. President Donald Trump could and should use his enormous ...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not deserve his initials, as he showed in a Senate hearing that revealed a Shakespearean streak of villainy in the health and human services secretary.

Senator after senator asked straight questions about his broken promises on vaccine policy. Two are Republican doctors who expressed deep concern about his hurting ...Read more

Nearly all Americans agree that Congress has become a sad joke -- a blight of irritating gnats.

How exciting, then, that a consultant to top Republican lawmakers has figured out how to make Congress better. Ready? Raise the members' pay!

Golly, why didn't I think of that? After all, who wants to work for only $174,000 a year (plus full ...Read more

When a president recites 30,000 documented falsehoods in one term, is indicted by federal grand juries for violating the Espionage Act and obstructing justice, is convicted of 34 felonies, is found liable for fraud and separately liable for sexual abuse and is nevertheless returned to office by American voters, you pretty much know that where ...Read more

My sister and her guy just returned from Portugal after their second big travel venture of the year. I asked, naturally, "How was it?"

She said, "Awful." They were crammed in Porto alongside a zillion other tourists. A crush of bodies and long lines under a brutal sun. The experience left them with a case of Hodophobia, fear of travel. (Hodos...Read more

On Aug. 11, President Donald Trump invoked a provision of the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 and temporarily placed the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control for 30 days, saying he would allow the police to "do whatever the hell they want." At the same time, he deployed nearly 1,000 D.C. National Guard troops and almost as many ...Read more

Half the country is hoping President Donald Trump is dying. The other half thinks that, if he does die, he will rise again on the third day and send troops into Cleveland.

This does not make me more comfortable as I head to the dollar store to buy the cat litter my wife told me we need. Everyday errands are almost embarrassing during times of ...Read more