Clarence Page is a syndicated columnist and a former member of the baiduhai Editorial Board. Among other awards, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1989) and lifetime achievement awards from Chicago Headline Club, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, National Press Foundation and National Association of Black Journalists.
Ever since Donald Trump entered the Republican presidential race I have been waiting to see him lose. I wanted to see how he would handle it. Humility, after all, is...
"Political correctness" may be the most intriguing issue to emerge in the current presidential election cycle, especially for Republicans. Yet it also may be the most under-discussed, perhaps out of...
It is easy to be disappointed by the news that this year's 20 nominees for the Academy Awards for leading and supporting actors and actresses included no nonwhite nominees —...
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What's the most clearly defining moment so far in the 2016 presidential race? My choice would be Republican candidate Ted Cruz's New Hampshire campaign stop last March where he demonstrated...
Considering the stubbornness of his opposition, I thought President Barack Obama was being quite generous in expressing "regrets" over his role in Washington's dysfunction. "It's one of the few regrets...
There's a lot that is worth criticizing about actor Sean Penn's rambling Rolling Stone article about his friendly meeting with cutthroat fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. But if...
With less than a month to go before Iowa caucus-goers cast the first actual votes in the presidential nomination race, Republican leaders and donors disagree over how to stop the...
Remember how Republican Sen. Marco Rubio called mainstream media "the ultimate super PAC" for Hillary Clinton and other Democrats? If so, his opponent Donald Trump's favorite precinct captain must be...
In Washington, a city with many memorials, the locals argue heatedly these days over whether one should be painted over. That's because it is a mural on the side of...