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Beware of Russian trolling that looks like racial activism on the web .

Don’t let Russian internet trolls stir racial unrest here

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

As if we Americans were not doing a good enough job of hating each other on our own, recent news reports tell us Russian trolls are using social media to...

Actor Keegan-Michael Key plays the part of Luther, President Barack Obama's anger translator, during the president's remarks at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on April 25, 2015.

President Trump needs his own ‘Luther’

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

Remember how critics used to argue that President Barack Obama was more reserved and dispassionate than he ought to be? Nobody says that about President Donald Trump. If anything, the...

In this Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, frame from video, Myeshia Johnson cries over the casket of her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in Niger, upon his body's arrival in Miami.

Messages to a man who wasn’t there

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

It was a day for three extraordinary speeches by three extraordinary men, each with an important message for another man who was not in the room. Two former presidents, George...

Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.), nominee for White House drug czar, is under scrutiny after a news investigation found the lawmaker helped steer legislation that made it harder for the government to take some enforcement actions against giant drug companies.

Drug industry swims in Washington’s swamp

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

Well, that was quick. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday morning that his pick to be drug czar, Rep. Tom Marino, had withdrawn from consideration after media reports revealed his role...

The Obama conspiracy theories just keep coming

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

Conspiracy theories about Barack Obama have not gone away in his post-presidency. But they have inspired a new book of fictional short stories that subtly raises an intriguing question: Why...

Protesters and members of the Georgetown University faculty stand on the steps of the Georgetown University Law Center before U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke at the college on Sept. 26, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

Free speech is more than a ‘right-wing’ cause

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

If you didn't know better, you might think — as some people appear to believe — that "free speech" has become some sort of a right-wing plot. That's because we...

A bump stock device, at left, that fits on a semi-automatic rifle to increase the firing speed, making it similar to a fully automatic rifle, is installed on a AK-47 semi-automatic rifle, (right) at a gun store on Oct. 5, 2017, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Go ahead, blame Obama if it means better gun laws

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

"Bump stocks." Hardly anyone had heard about them before they were found in the late Las Vegas shooter's arsenal. Association with that massacre has made the devices, which can enable...

Less Twitter, more teleprompter, please, Mr. President

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

As I watched various journalists, police, psychiatrists and other smart people on cable TV try to make sense of the senseless mass shooting Sunday in Las Vegas, an actor in...

The Playboy Mansion, 1340 N. State Parkway, in Chicago on Dec. 9, 1974.

Hugh Hefner: Searching for the teenage boy in every man

June 30, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

Hugh Hefner's death last week at age 91 brought to mind a special piece of history that we have in our house: a Braille edition of Playboy magazine. Yes, when...

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Washington.

How about a King Donald?

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

America wants a king. Not all Americans, of course. You won't find anything that all Americans want. We're way too diverse and divided in our interests, political knowledge and tastes...

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