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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, right, speaks as Reps. Ilhan Omar, left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib listen at a Capitol news conference on July 15, 2019.

Column: Donald Trump’s cheap shots reveal a very weak man

July 16, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

Why does President Donald Trump, who holds the world most powerful political office, waste his time, energy and insults belittling a quartet of first-year congresswomen? On Sunday, the president unleashed...

R&B singer R. Kelly, shown center in May 2019 arriving for a divorce court hearing in Chicago, is facing new federal indictments in Chicago and New York.

Column: Do R. Kelly, Jeffrey Epstein arrests signal a turning point against ‘rape culture’?

July 12, 2019 at 3:17 p.m.

It may be more than coincidental that R&B music star R. Kelly and well-connected Wall Street financier Jeffrey Epstein were arrested in the same week on federal charges related to...

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, center, arrives for the inaugural European Parliament session at the European Parliament on July 2, 2019, in Strasbourg, France.

Column: What Italy can teach Democrats about running against Donald Trump

July 9, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

I used to wonder how a society as old, grand and sophisticated as Italy's could choose an elderly businessman as flamboyant, scandal-prone and inexperienced in government as Silvio Berlusconi for...

Mad magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman shows off the debut cover of the publication's new look at a New York news conference Tuesday, April 1, 1997.

Column: Alas, poor Mad magazine, pulled under by its own humor wave

July 5, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

What? Mad magazine will disappear from newsstands after August? Well, as Dorothy Parker is said to have said after hearing of President Calvin Coolidge's death, "How can they tell?" After...

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., at the SF Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 30, 2019.

Column: The birthers are back — this time for Kamala Harris

July 2, 2019 at 7:10 p.m.

Here we go again. Birtherism is back. Just as the original birthers rose up in 2008 to raise what turned out to be bogus questions about Barack Obama's birth certificate,...

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., right, spar during the Democratic primary debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on June 27, 2019, in Miami. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is in the center.

Column: Kamala Harris won the moment, but Joe Biden’s still fightin’

July 2, 2019 at 7:08 p.m.

After the first of two nights of 2020 Democratic presidential debates, I found it hard to argue with President Donald Trump's brief tweeted critique: "BORING!" Most disappointing in the two-hour...

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks with members of the media on June 19, 2019. He's one of more than 20 contenders seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.

Column: Lessons from ‘Mayor Pete’s’ South Bend racial crisis

June 25, 2019 at 5:38 p.m.

When you're a small city mayor running for the Democratic presidential nomination, television news images of you getting yelled at by angry black constituents is not a good look. That's...

Sens. Kamala Harris, foreground, and Cory Booker, center, were quick to condemn fellow Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's comments about his past working with segregationist lawmakers.

Column: Too ‘civil’? What if Joe Biden knows what he’s doing?

June 21, 2019 at 8:04 p.m.

Critics of Joe Biden are falling over themselves in a rush to castigate the former vice president — and current front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination — for his latest...

A supporter of Planned Parenthood stands near anti-abortion demonstrators outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis on May 31, 2019.

Column: On abortion, voters still lean to the wobbly middle

June 18, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.

Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden is taking heat and light for his recent switcheroo on abortion rights. But Biden is hardly alone in his inconsistency on this volatile issue. Some...

Father's Day always has struggled for respect.

Is Father’s Day obsolete? Don’t let the trolls fool you.

June 14, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

Father's Day is under fire. Or so I thought. I was gathering my notes for a Father's Day column when I came across this grumpy-sounding hashtag: #EndFathersDay. Again? With so...

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