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On his new album, Kanye West raps that his bipolar disorder is "my superpower." West has the power to deliver important messages about mental health if he were to choose to harness it.

How Kanye West can put his ‘superpower’ to good use

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

It must be terribly frustrating for Kanye West to see a Supreme Court confirmation fight in Washington elbow his new album out of the national spotlight. But that’s showbiz. His...

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis during a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 9, 2017, in Washington.

‘Vindication’? Not so fast, Mr. President

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

Those who were playing the Trump Twitter Drinking Game — take a drink every time President Donald Trump tweets — during James Comey 's Senate intelligence committee testimony Thursday came...

Bill Cosby is escorted from the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville, Pa., on Sept. 25, 2018, after being sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault.

Cosby, Kavanaugh and #MeToo make a teachable week

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

In a darkly amusing irony, Bill Cosby’s menu for his first week in prison includes pudding. No, it’s not the pudding of the Jell-O Pudding Pops that Cosby memorably hawked...

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27, 2018.

He said, she said, and we all vote

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

This is not a trial. We constantly were reminded of that as the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh escalated into a bitter partisan...

Even in our diverse tribes, we’re still Americans

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

As the heated debate over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court boils down to a simple question of which tribe will win, it’s an excellent time to revisit Abraham...

Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearing Oct. 12, 1991.

Have we learned anything since Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas?

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

Hard cases make bad law, according to an old legal maxim. Hard cases make brutal Supreme Court confirmation fights too. The soap opera unfolding around Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s...

Brett Kavanaugh, associate counsel in the office of independent counsel Kenneth Starr, sits behind Starr during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee regarding the possible impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.

The irony of Brett Kavanaugh’s predicament

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

It must feel ironic for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be judged now by the standards he once tried to apply in the toughest way possible to another alleged offender, then-President...

A tattered flag flies in the Cementerio de Villa Palmeras in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 13, 2018. The number of deaths related to Hurricane Maria is in dispute between President Trump and the mayor of San Juan.

Trump flunks his disaster test

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

If a politician commits a gaffe but doesn’t know that it’s a gaffe, has a gaffe actually been committed? That question came to mind as I read a startling tweet...

Philadelphia Eagles teammates stand on the sidelines during the national anthem before their NFL season opener with the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday. No players there knelt during the anthem.

Game on: Trump plays the NFL, and identity politics, to his favor

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

It’s football season in an election year. Can President Donald Trump and flag-waving politics be far behind? Not by much. I used to watch sports for fun and, being a...

A view of the West Wing of the White House on May 27, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

‘Quiet resistance’ in the White House? Maybe too quiet

June 7, 2019 at 4:29 a.m.

Who done it? “It wasn’t me!” “Not me!” “No way, me!” That’s how the work week ended at the White House. President Donald Trump was “volcanic,” White House insiders said,...

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