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Former Vice President Joe Biden at the Biden Courage Awards on March 26, 2019, in New York.

Does Biden’s ‘GroperGate’ matter? Let the voters decide.

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

I was ready to call former Vice President Joe Biden’s handsyness scandal “GroperGate” until I found that Canadian headline writers had beat me to it. They came up with the...

Jussie Smollett, the "Empire" actor who was facing 16 charges for lying to police about an alleged attack, waves as he walks out to speak to the media after all charges against him were dropped at Chicago's Leighton Criminal Court Building on March 26.

Jussie Smollett case shows connected black stars have their privileges too

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

It’s an odd sign of progress to see that a black man with enough wealth and the right connections can receive the same sort of special breaks from the criminal...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters March 24, 2019, in Washington after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Relax, President Trump only behaves like a Russian agent

May 31, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

What a weekend. It began with President Donald Trump walking free after special counsel Robert Mueller turned in his report on Russian tampering with our elections and ended with the...

Kellyanne Conway, accompanied by her husband, George, speaks with journalists as they arrive for a dinner at Union Station in Washington on Jan. 19, 2017, the day before President Donald Trump's inauguration.

The Conways and Trump: When love and political war mix, what’s fair?

May 31, 2019 at 4:28 p.m.

Would you stay married to someone whose politics conflicted directly with your job? That’s one of many questions that, amid all the other heavy issues that preoccupy Washington these days,...

Christian Picciolini, co-founder of Life After Hate, at his home office in Chicago on Aug. 18, 2017. Picciolini, a former skinhead, co-founded the group to help misguided youths put supremacism behind them.

While Trump denies influence of hate groups, white nationalists appeal to alienated young men

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

By now, no one should be surprised to hear that the 28-year-old white supremacist who is accused of killing 50 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, cites this...

College admission scandal reveals ‘status anxiety’ run amok

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

Before her parents were busted in connection with the college-admissions mega-scandal, I had never heard of Olivia Jade Giannulli. That’s probably because I am not a teenager. Young and female...

Rep Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., center, leaves the House chamber March 7, 2019, after a vote on a resolution to condemn hatred and bigotry.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s feistiness divides Democrats, delights Republicans

May 31, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

W.C. Fields’ famous line, “I am free of all prejudices; I hate everyone equally,” sounded like a new motto for Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota’s rising Democratic firebrand, when she took...

Rep. Ilhan Omar's criticisms of Israel led to House passage March 7, 2018, of a resolution condemning "anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism and other forms of bigotry."

Will anti-Semitism divide Democrats? It already has.

May 31, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

As Democrats wrestled among themselves over the past week before taking a House vote to broadly condemn bigotry and hatred, I was reminded of what former President Barack Obama said...

Will Michael Jackson’s legacy survive the ‘Leaving Neverland’ documentary?

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

When we first saw Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch on television in the late 1980s, a sarcastic friend of mine wisecracked, “Wow, that looks like a pedophile’s paradise.” I tried not...

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, after testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington.

Reparations and that Chicago story Cohen told about Trump

May 31, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

I was looking into how the issue of reparations to African-Americans who descended from slavery has returned to the national political conversation — and wondering why — when a little...

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