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Florida delegate Dianne Krumel from Pensacola shows her support for Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the start of the third day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016.

Obama unifies Democrats around common enemy: Donald Trump

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

President Barack Obama's address Wednesday to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia reminded me of the Big Speech that has saved the Republic and its decent human values in big...

Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., yell during a rally near City Hall in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, during the second day of the Democratic National Convention.

DNC protesters’ motives are suspect. Want dialogue? Remove the duct tape.

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, several of my colleagues and I were kept out of the media tents because too many alleged supporters of Sen. Bernie...

Democrats kick off DNC feuding and fussing, just like the GOP

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

After attending the unusually raucous and divided Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week, I expected a reasonably sedate coronation of Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention that kicked...

Law enforcement officers take protesters into custody July 20, 2016, in Cleveland during the third day of the Republican convention.

Donald Trump’s pivot to the center — of darkness

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

Where's the pivot? That's what I was wondering throughout Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's lengthy and surprisingly humorless acceptance speech Thursday at the Grand Old Party's national convention in Cleveland....

Ted Cruz draws the boos, but will Donald Trump lose?

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

At first I thought the crowd was so thrilled by Sen. Ted Cruz's rousing speech at the Republican National Convention that they were calling his name: "Cruz! Cruz! Cru-u-u-u-u-uuuuuzzz...!!!" But,...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during the second day session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, on Tuesday, July 19, 2016.

Benefit of Melania Trump speech fiasco? The Chris Christie 93 percent standard

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

I find it ironic, to say the least, that the man who made "You're fired" into part of his brand on his reality TV show is so highly reluctant to...

Donald Trump and the art of vagueness

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

Donald Trump made a grand entrance on the first night of the Republican National Convention, back-lit in a thick blue fog. I expected to hear the theme song from his...

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the chamber's only black Republican, told his colleagues in a floor speech that he had been stopped by police "seven times in one year as an elected official."

Black Republican Sen. Tim Scott tackles police ‘trust gap’

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina was still learning the ways of Washington, he says, when he saw a police officer following his car near Capitol Hill. "I took a...

President Barack Obama speaks during an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on July 12, 2016, in Dallas, Texas.

Will racial tensions tarnish Obama’s legacy?

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

It's been a long time since we've seen Republican lawmakers as concerned about bad race relations as they have in recent days, especially when they can blame the whole mess...

Community members pray during interfaith prayer event June 8, 2016, in Dallas, for the victims of the shooting that killed 5 police officers and wounded 7 others.

If ‘all lives matter,’ show that you mean it

May 23, 2019 at 9:07 p.m.

I have never been entirely comfortable with the name that the Black Lives Matter movement chose for itself. I get their point. The group's founders didn't mean to imply that...

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