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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a rally in Bethpage, Long Island, New York.

What promise will Trump renounce next? How about this one …

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

For every complex problem, H.L. Mencken wrote, there is an answer that is neat, plausible — and wrong. Donald Trump should write that quote on his forehead, backward, so that...

Clintons wrestle with a black generation gap

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

It's hard to say why former President Bill Clinton went so far off-script to defend his 1994 anti-crime law against Black Lives Matter hecklers at a Philadelphia rally for his...

Author Salman Rushdie speaks after accepting the baiduhai Literary Prize at the UIC Forum Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, in Chicago.

Salman Rushdie has an issue with ‘safe spaces’ sheltered from Donald Trump

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

A group of Emory University students recently made news by demanding protection from being "in pain," as one student protest chant put it, by slogans such as "Accept the Inevitable:...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles as he speaks at a campaign stop Tuesday, March 29, 2016, in Janesville, Wis.

Does Donald Trump really want to win?

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

I used to chuckle when Donald Trump called himself a "unifier." So far, the Republican front-runner has been about as unifying as a fox in a henhouse. Yet unity appeared...

Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan delivers remarks on Capitol Hill March 23, 2016, in Washington, DC. Ryan delivered a speech on the state of American politics.

Speaker Paul Ryan finds his voice of reason

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling strongly objects to those who compare Lord Voldemort, the "Dark Lord" who is Potter's archenemy in Rowling's novels, to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. As...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally March 19, 2016, in Tucson, Ariz.

Economic anxiety fuels the GOP’s new ‘Trumpism’

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

A pivotal debate has broken out in conservative ranks in the age of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. Call it "the Trumpists versus the anti-Trumpists." The anti-Trumpists, such as William...

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Merrick Garland, the nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s fickle loyalty to ‘the people’

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

Thank you, Merrick Garland. Your stalled appointment to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama gives me another outrage to write about besides Donald Trump's presidential campaign. This grateful pundit...

O.J. Simpson flees from police in the back of a white Ford Bronco on June 17, 1994.

What the O.J. Simpson trial and Donald Trump have in common

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

It is strikingly appropriate that cable network FX is running its surprisingly gripping "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" during the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. What do...

Protesters speak out during a Donald Trump campaign rally March 11, 2016, inside the UIC Pavilion.

Let Donald Trump speak, even if he threatens your speech

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

During a weekend of violence at some of Donald Trump's rallies, I received a flurry of angry emails, all playing the same game of "How would you feel?" How would...

Donald Trump supporters line up March 11, 2016, at the UIC Pavilion in advance of a political rally.

Trump, Sanders and the sleeper issue of trade

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

Pollsters had a heap of explaining to do after Sen. Bernie Sanders beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Michigan's Democratic primary, beating odds that pollsters had put at...

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