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Demonstrators protesting Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act rally March 30, 2015, in Indianapolis. Unlike many other states with similar acts, Indiana does not have statewide gay rights protections.

Free to discriminate in Indiana

May 25, 2019 at 12:36 p.m.

Neither side in the uproar over Indiana's religious freedom law has been totally candid about its benefits or its dangers. That often happens in politics, an arena in which it...

Sen. Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi, and their daughters join him onstage at Liberty University after he announced his candidacy for president on March 23, 2015. Cruz's choice of venue reinforced his rejection of the "mushy middle."

Ted Cruz is all about that base

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Now that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has thrown his cowboy hat into the ring for president, it's time to start handicapping the candidates, even if some of us may wish...

Monica Lewinsky, seen in December at an event in Los Angeles, appears to be remaking her image ahead of a possible presidential run by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Monica Lewinsky’s new media moment

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

A surprising contriteness has taken hold of Bill Maher and David Letterman about one of their favorite high-value targets: Monica Lewinsky. After reading Lewinsky's first-person essay in last June's issue...

Holly Ainslie, a barista at a Starbucks store in Seattle puts a "Race Together" sticker on a customer's cup, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

Forced talk of race at Starbucks is better than silence

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is urging baristas to engage customers in discussions about race and inequality — as if his employees already were not busy enough trying to tell my...

Students walk between classes at the University of Oklahoma. Video showing Sigma Alpha Epsilon members singing a racist chant while traveling on a tour bus went viral after being uploaded to the internet.

Millennials are just as prejudiced as their parents

August 21, 2019 at 5:31 p.m.

Frat boys caught on video singing a racist chant are shocking but not as surprising as we might think. New studies show young folks to be no less prejudiced than...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, seen in 2011, checks her BlackBerry during a forum in Busan, South Korea. Clinton's use of her private email during her time as secretary of state has come under increased scrutiny.

Hillary Clinton and the self-destruct button

May 27, 2020 at 1:02 a.m.

If Hillary Clinton didn't do anything wrong, why is she so reluctant to talk about it? It is hard to call her barely legal use of her personal email account...

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush, former first lady Laura Bush and U.S. Rep. John Lewis lead a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 2015, to mark the 50th anniversary of civil rights marches in Selma, Ala.

To judge racial progress, take the measure of time

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Whenever I see a poll that says race relations have gotten worse under President Barack Obama, I want to respond: compared to what? I don't hear a decent answer to...

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks Wednesday about the Justice Department's findings on the justice system in Ferguson, Mo., among them that African-Americans are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement.

Justice Department report on Ferguson a lesson to police across America

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

The U.S. Justice Department's investigation of Ferguson, Mo., offers plenty to hate for both sides of this dispute, which means there's also plenty for everybody to learn. Seven months after...

As a talk show host, Bill O'Reilly gets a pass for his statements.

Why Bill O’Reilly gets a whopper of a pass

May 23, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

Mother Jones, a feisty investigative magazine with a left-progressive slant, has been on the warpath lately in pursuit of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. The charge: serial exaggerations and outright...

Can ‘Chuy’ give Rahm a run for his money?

May 25, 2019 at 12:53 p.m.

Four years ago, I was surprised by how early in the evening on election night President Barack Obama's former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel won the mayoral race in Chicago,...

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