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The value of Oscar winner ‘Green Book’

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

I was watching the Oscars when a thought occurred to me: Why does Hollywood love interracial road trip movies? Yes, I’m referring to — among others — “Green Book,” this...

President Donald Trump should be mindful of his own penchant for colorful slurs — "Crooked Hillary" and "Lyin' Ted," for example — as he seeks to make it easier to sue for libel.

A change to libel law could backfire on President Trump

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

Is Justice Clarence Thomas joining President Donald Trump’s war on news media? Trump’s near-constant complaints about the “fake news” media received an unexpected boost Wednesday. In a solo opinion, Justice...

"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett describes his alleged attack in an interview with Robin Roberts on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Jussie Smollett and the rush to judgment

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

Some readers are so eager to react to what I write that they don’t always bother to wait for me to write it. “You should write about the Smollett hoax,”...

Were the MAGA hat teens at the Lincoln Memorial victims of the Trump effect?

May 31, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

Remember the “red hat” kids? Remember the video-recorded face-off between students from Kentucky’s all-male Covington Catholic High School, some of whom were wearing bright red “Make America Great Again” hats,...

People leave notes of support outside the office of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Capitol Hill on Feb. 11, 2019. Omar has "unequivocally" apologized for tweets suggesting a powerful pro-Israel interest group paid members of Congress to support Israel.

Lessons of Gov. Northam, Rep. Omar: What to say after you say ‘sorry’ in politics

May 31, 2019 at 4:26 p.m.

Amid all the calls for the resignation of Gov. Ralph Northam, who admitted to wearing blackface makeup in the 1980s when he was a medical student, guess which group of...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., right, announce their Green New Deal legislation on Feb. 7, 2019, outside the Capitol in Washington.

GOP zingers about ‘socialism’ and ‘class warfare’ don’t sting Dems like they used to

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

When President Donald Trump invoked “alarm” in his State of the Union address over what he described as “new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” television quickly cut to...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam gestures as his wife, Pam, listens during a news conference in the Governor's Mansion at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 2, 2019. Northam is under fire for a photo that appeared in his college yearbook.

Maybe Gov. Ralph Northam should say, ‘You first, Mr. President’

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

I’m disappointed in Ralph Northam, but not just for the reasons most people are saying. I’m disappointed that the embattled Democratic governor of Virginia didn’t try to push back for...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., at third annual Women's March in New York on Jan. 19, 2019.

Why is the right still flipping out over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

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

Remember how conservatives used to mock the mainstream media’s supposed “obsession” with President Donald Trump? Well, since Democrats regained the House and clout on Capitol Hill, look at who’s obsessing...

Tom Brokaw, shown in 2018, made controversial comments about Hispanics on a recent episode of "Meet the Press."

Tom Brokaw was wrong about immigrants but not alone

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

Poor Tom Brokaw. It might not seem like it, at first, but the former “NBC Nightly News” anchor may have done us all a favor with his ill-informed comments that...

Fog blankets the valley over the Rio Grande that marks the boundary between the United States, left, and Mexico on Jan. 17, 2019, in Texas' Big Bend Ranch State Park.

Now for the real deal — what is a ‘wall’?

May 31, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

Welcome to the eye of the hurricane. For more than a month, the federal government was in partial shutdown while President Donald Trump and congressional leaders were deadlocked over the...

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