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The sun shines through a European Union flag held by demonstrators outside Parliament in London on Jan. 22, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled her Brexit Plan B on Monday.

Trump’s wall is America’s Brexit, thanks to Facebook

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

Having trouble sorting out the United Kingdom’s Brexit mess? Think closer to home. Think of Brexit as Britain’s version of President Donald Trump’s proposed Mexican border “wall.” And, perhaps more...

People gather at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool before the Women's March on Jan. 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

‘Respect’ was not enough for MLK or today’s Women’s March organizers

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

It is a meaningful coincidence that the anniversary of the 2017 Women’s March lands on the same weekend as the national Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Both the civil...

President Donald Trump's address to the nation about border security is shown on a television screen in Times Square on Jan. 8, 2019, in New York City.

How to control the overwhelming fire hose of news

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

Having trouble keeping up with news that seems to be flowing out of Washington with even more fire-hose ferocity than usual? If so, you’re not alone. Almost 7 in 10...

People walk on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border barrier in Tijuana on Thursday, Jan. 10. Some researchers have found that an increase in the labor supply through immigration often generates more jobs in the long run.

Trump’s sly attempt to pit Hispanics, African-Americans against immigrants

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

Almost as an afterthought near the end of his nationally televised address on what he calls the “border crisis,” President Donald Trump remembered his black and Hispanic constituents and what’s...

R. Kelly performing at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on July 21, 2013.

R. Kelly allegations beg the question: Do #BlackGirlsLivesMatter too?

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

After viewing “Surviving R. Kelly,” Lifetime’s riveting six-part documentary on the R&B star’s decades of child and sexual abuse allegations, one question rings out to me above all others: Do...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, center, talks to reporters alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Sen. Dick Durbin after meeting with President Donald Trump about border security at the White House Jan. 4.

Democrats are right to call President Trump’s border wall bluff

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

As the partial federal government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s demand for $5 billion in border wall funding finished its second week — and Democrats resumed control of the House...

Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, R-Utah, left, shown Nov. 14, 2018, blasts President Donald Trump's leadership and character in a Washington Post op-ed.

Nothing is certain for 2020 except the uncertainty

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

Asked if he thinks Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who announced a presidential exploratory committee on New Year’s Eve, can win, President Donald Trump responded as he often does, with an...

Peering at the news of the year that was, there were revelations and unusual fixations.

Looking back at a year of living anxiously

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

Bye-bye, 2018. Thanks for leaving us with a rich supply of nominees for my first annual Significa Awards, a year-end roundup of significantly trivial news that revealed something startling about...

Demonstrators march near Federal Plaza on Dearborn Street during the Women's March in Chicago on Jan. 20, 2018.

Women’s March Chicago wrestles with confusion over a national group’s identity

May 31, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

Editor’s Note: This column corrects and updates an earlier version that incorrectly said a planned march by Women’s March Chicago was canceled because of a controversy involving the national Women’s...

President George H.W. Bush gives a speech during a fundraising lunch at the St. Francis Hotel on Feb. 25, 1992.

Bush showed us that brutish masculinity wasn’t ‘prudent’

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

When former President George W. Bush broke down and briefly cried near the end of his eulogy to his father, former President George H. W. Bush, I felt more than...

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