COMMENTARY: Climbing out of caves, one foot at a time
BY LOUISE BUTLERI wasn’t stuck so much as petrified. I was wedged between the walls of an 8-feet-tall smooth lava fall. The top of...
COMMENTARY: Democracy would be healthier if Supreme Court descended from Olympus
BY MICHAEL GERSONThere is always a secret relief — even, I imagine, among his supporters — when President Trump does not do something random...
COMMENTARY: Stripping Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from literature award is censorship
BY CHRISTINE M. FLOWERSLast week, at its convention in New Orleans, the American Library Association announced that it was dropping Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name...
COMMENTARY: Fight to replace Pruitt will be political gold for Democrats
BY JON HEALEYRepublicans who secretly wished for an opening at the top of the Environmental Protection Agency got it Thursday, when ethically challenged EPA...
COMMENTARY: White Democrats battle demographics – and lose
BY RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR.The recent upset in New York’s 14th Congressional District brought some valuable political lessons.Twenty-eight-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was outspent 18-to-1 by 56-year-old...
COMMENTARY: End of an Era
BY M. RAY PERRYMANGeneral Electric (GE) was recently eliminated from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or simply “the Dow”), after more than a century...
COMMENTARY: Neo-isolationism won’t work
BY ROBERT J. SAMUELSONOn this July Fourth, America has taken a turn for the worst. The great delusion of Donald Trump’s presidency is that...
COMMENTARY: Mexico’s elections weren’t about Trump, but it could be the beginning of a...
BY RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR.Ay, Chihuahua!A lot of U.S. columnists, TV commentators and radio hosts haven’t let a little thing like the fact that they...
COMMENTARY: Offenders should still be treated with humanity
BY MICHAEL GERSONAn administration not known for policy creativity is unlikely to have useful internal policy debates. But in the Trump administration, prison reform...
COMMENTARY: It’s a hard time to be a never-Trump Republican
BY ALBERT R. HUNTPresidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump have inspired overwhelming loyalty from their party’s rank and file, probably more than any other...