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Pro-abortion demonstrators make signs in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on May 3, 2022.

Clarence Page: Dems, if you don’t care about the Supreme Court, you may not deserve to win

May 3, 2022 at 6:34 p.m.

Since I'm not a fan of their political agenda, I can't quite bring myself to congratulate the anti-abortion movement, but I have to give them credit where it's due. They've...

A resident holds Newport menthol cigarettes outside his building in Chicago's Dearborn Homes public housing development in 2018.

Clarence Page: A ban on menthol cigarettes? It’s about time.

April 29, 2022 at 4:11 p.m.

The Food and Drug Administration's new plan to ban sales of menthol-flavored cigarettes reminded me, as so much of life does, of an often-quoted scene in "The Godfather." In a...

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington on March 9, 2020. Musk has reached an agreement to buy Twitter.

Clarence Page: Elon Musk’s next surprise? ‘Free speech’ has limits.

April 26, 2022 at 5:16 p.m.

Although it may take several months for Elon Musk to complete his purchase of Twitter, reaction to the $44 billion deal was immediate and decidedly partisan. On the right we...

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, center, at the state Capitol in Lansing before the State of the State address on Jan. 29, 2020.

Clarence Page: How to push back against bully politics

April 22, 2022 at 6:05 p.m.

As I have seen political discourse degrade into a verbal form of gladiator death match, I find myself recalling my old friends on "The McLaughlin Group" with an unexpected fondness....

A ghost gun is displayed before the start of an event about gun violence in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 11, 2022. Biden announced a new firearm regulation aimed at reining in ghost guns, untraceable, unregulated weapons made from kits.

Clarence Page: What the right doesn’t get about ‘ghost guns’

April 19, 2022 at 5:24 p.m.

An often-repeated story about W.C. Fields holds that as he approached the end of his life, a friend was surprised to find him reading a Bible. "Looking for loopholes, m'boy,"...

President Joe Biden speaks at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro on April 14, 2022.

Clarence Page: Democrats are still wrestling with their trickiest issue: Message control

April 15, 2022 at 4:57 p.m.

You know a political party is in trouble when its leading voices turn on each other in their search for someone to blame. Democrats, as Will Rogers and others famously...

Elon Musk speaks at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020, in Washington.

Clarence Page: Elon Musk makes his move on Twitter — but toward what?

April 12, 2022 at 4:57 p.m.

First he said he would, then he didn't. Less than a week after the announcement that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had become Twitter's largest shareholder and would be joining the...

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson listens to Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: What is a woman, Judge Jackson? We’ll see you in court

April 8, 2022 at 5:24 p.m.

Of all the questions that ranged from wise to wacky during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court, one sticks out with memorable prominence: What is a...

Louis C.K. at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2015.

Clarence Page: Louis C.K. cancels his cancellation, is it OK to laugh now?

April 5, 2022 at 4:32 p.m.

Compared to the instant shock of watching Will Smith slap Chris Rock at the Academy Awards, the Recording Academy seemed to be delivering a quieter but just as profound slap...

People rally at the White House Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, which preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Text messages between Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Mark Meadows are the first evidence that she directly advised the White House in efforts to reverse results of the 2020 presidential election.

Clarence Page: Burner phones and Ginni Thomas’ paranoid ways

April 1, 2022 at 4:26 p.m.

Character, according to an old saying, is defined by what you do when you think nobody's looking. So, one might say, are a lot of criminal indictments. That's particularly true...

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