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Columnist Charles Krauthammer says Bernie Sanders is "the perfect protest candidate" but doesn't stance a chance at winning.

The Racing Form for the 2016 election, third edition

Both presidential nomination contests having been scrambled by recent events — the FBI taking control of Hillary Clinton's private email server and a raucous, roiling GOP debate — the third...
President Barack Obama talks about the nuclear deal with Iran on Aug. 5, 2015, at American in Washington, D.C.

Just who is helping Iran’s hard-liners?

The latest Quinnipiac poll shows that the American public rejects President Barack Obama's Iran deal by more than 2-to-1. This is astonishing. The public generally gives the president deference on...
Pastor Moner Shaded, at right, translates July 10, 2015, as two Syrian women, far right, speak with journalists at Warsaw's airport after more than 150 Christian refugees from Syria arrived in Poland to find asylum from the war and Islamic State militants.

Among the ruins, a case of righteousness

Christianity, whose presence in the Middle East predates Islam's by 600 years, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Egyptian Copts may have found some respite under Abdel-Fattah...
Mary Roy, of Potosi, Mo., holds a rosary at a pro-life rally July 21, 2015, outside a Planned Parenthood building in St. Louis. The country is about evenly split on abortion, but will the latest revelations of what it involves provoke more to Americans oppose it?

The price of fetal parts

"Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you." — Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013 Planned Parenthood's reaction to the release of a clandestinely recorded conversation about the...
President Barack Obama fields questions about the Iran nuclear deal during a news conference at the White House on July 15, 2015. He dare not call this capitulation to the Islamic Republic a treaty — it would be instantly rejected by the Senate.

Iran deal worse than we imagined

When you write a column, as did I two weeks ago, headlined "The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history," you don't expect to revisit the issue. We had hit bottom....
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Can Pluto enliven our summer of discontent?

We need a pick-me-up. Amid the vandalizing of Palmyra, the imminent extinction of the northern white rhino, the disarray threatening Europe's most ambitious attempt ever at peaceful unification — amid...
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The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history

The devil is not in the details. It's in the entire conception of the Iran deal, animated by President Barack Obama's fantastical belief that he, uniquely, could achieve detente with...
Visitors stand in line to pay their respects June 25, 2015, during an open viewing for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney at a church in Ridgeland, S.C., that Pinckney attended while growing up. Pinckney was one of the nine victims killed in the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.

Leave guns out of the discussion

After a massacre like the one at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., our immediate reaction is to do something. Something, for politicians, means legislation. And for Democratic...
A Syrian refugee carries children in southeastern Turkey as he and others flee intense fighting in northern Syria between Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants. The Kurds have shown commitment to the fight in Syria and Iraq and deserve direct U.S. support.

A new strategy in Iraq and Syria

It's time for a new strategy in Iraq and Syria. It begins by admitting that the old borders are gone, that a unified Syria or Iraq will never be reconstituted,...