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Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz did an interview with Bloomberg Politics reporter Mark Halperin last week in which he was asked to welcome Sen. Bernie Sanders to the presidential race "en espanol." Halperin has since apologized.

Can Republicans not be minorities?

May 11, 2019 at 2:21 a.m.

Imagine it's 2007 and a prominent journalist is interviewing then-Sen. Barack Obama. "Senator, people are really interested in you and your identity. I just wanted to ask you as a...

American photographer Andres Serrano stands beside a vandalized print of his photograph "Piss Christ," depicting a crucifix immersed in urine, in Melbourne, Australia, in this Oct. 13, 1997 file photo. Another print of the same photograph was sold at auction in New York Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999, for $43,700, about twice its pre-sale estimate, amid a ferocious debate over a controversial art exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

The left’s wobbly stance on provocative art

May 11, 2019 at 2:21 a.m.

Why aren't liberals offering Pamela Geller a federal subsidy? Geller is the blogger-activist who organized the "Draw Muhammad" exhibition in Garland, Texas, which inspired some DIY jihadis to attack the...

President Barack Obama speaks about recent unrest in Baltimore during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on April 28.

Liberals do themselves no favor by denying their ideology

May 11, 2019 at 2:20 a.m.

For the last 20 years, give or take another 50, one of the most cherished baubles of Beltway conventional wisdom has been that the Republican Party has moved too far...

In this courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sits as survivors and victims' family members address the court June 24, 2015. Tsarnaev apologized to the victims and their loved ones for the first time, just before the judge formally sentenced him to death.

How the Boston bombing challenges death penalty foes

May 11, 2019 at 2:18 a.m.

How about now? Are you in favor of the death penalty now? I ask because the preferred argument from opponents of the death penalty is doubt: We can never be...

How do ‘religious freedom’ acts encourage discrimination?

May 11, 2019 at 2:17 a.m.

"I could have handled that better." I don't know if the captain of the Titanic ever said that. But Mike Pence did on Tuesday. The Indiana governor has managed to...

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said President Barack Obama cannot ignore Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments in opposition to a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.

Obama as superhero: ‘The Ignorator’ ignores what he dislikes

May 11, 2019 at 2:16 a.m.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough recently spoke to J Street, a left-wing organization that fancies itself the headquarters of the tough-love-for-Israel crowd. J Street's critics would phrase it...

A barista holds a Starbucks iced tea drink with a "Race Together" sticker on it at a Starbucks store in Seattle, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

Coffee, tea — or a frank discussion on race?

May 11, 2019 at 2:15 a.m.

Starbucks is easy to make fun of on its best days, what with the pretentious names for everyday items (never mind the ridiculously high prices for those same everyday items)....

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and 46 Senate Republicans wrote a letter to Iran warning that a future U.S. Congress could reverse any nuclear deal.

The inconvenient truths in Tom Cotton’s letter to Iran

May 11, 2019 at 2:15 a.m.

It has been an Iranian tradition since 1979 to end Friday prayers with chants of "Death to America!" In a purely rational world, that would be all one needed to...

Is Jeb Bush the best candidate to run against Hillary Clinton in 2016? Or would Scott Walker or Marco Rubio be stronger opponents?

If Republicans want stale, Jeb Bush is their man

May 11, 2019 at 2:14 a.m.

Let us now make the case for Jeb skepticism.Jeb Bush is a fine man. He's a conservative. He was a highly effective conservative governor. He would probably make a fine...

Hillary Clinton talks to reporters about email accounts she used while secretary of state at the United Nations in New York on March 10, 2015.

Carefully scripted Hillary knocked out of comfort zone

May 11, 2019 at 2:13 a.m.

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's fairly disastrous news conference at the United Nations on Tuesday, there's only one conclusion shared by all parties: This was not how it was...

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