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Commentary: Far-left Democrats are pushing very bad ideas (and moderates get attacked if they say so)

September 20, 2019 at 6:12 p.m.

The leftward drift of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates seems to reflect a common frustration within the party's base: Democrats have simply never dreamed big enough. Perhaps, lefties suspect, Democratic...

Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in September 2018.

Commentary: The Democrats want to impeach Justice Brett Kavanaugh? Go for it!

September 19, 2019 at 4:50 p.m.

The latest smear on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a disaster for Democrats, and everyone seems to know it except the party's presidential candidates. No sooner had The New...

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the news media at the White House on Sept. 9, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Trump had invited the Taliban to Camp David for a meeting, though it was canceled after a Taliban suicide attack killed an American service member.

Commentary: Trump’s Taliban invitation is one of the most shameful moments of his presidency

September 10, 2019 at 4:53 p.m.

Imagine if, back in 2011, President Barack Obama had not only withdrawn all U.S. forces from Iraq, facilitating the rise of the Islamic State, but also invited Islamic State leaders...

Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is shown in Rome in 2013.

Commentary: Ex-cardinal McCarrick still won’t confess to committing any sexual abuse

September 6, 2019 at 4:54 p.m.

Disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick was defrocked in February and ordered by Pope Francis to live a "life of prayer and penance." It seems the message did not get through. McCarrick,...

President Donald Trump shows a map with what appears to be a hand-drawn half-circle extending over a part of Alabama, at a briefing in the Oval Office on Sept. 4, 2019.

Commentary: President Trump’s bogus hurricane map embodies the man

September 5, 2019 at 6:01 p.m.

This doesn't qualify as earth-shattering news at this point, but President Donald Trump showed us again this week how spectacularly ignorant, vainglorious and obsessive he can be. This time, he...

Zaniya Smith, 6, checks out her box of free school supplies at Carter School of Excellence in Chicago in 2015.

Commentary: Along with school supplies, teachers bring to their classrooms plenty of hope and courage

September 4, 2019 at 3:31 p.m.

Contact paper. Plastic boxes for crayons. Damage-free picture hangers ... If you're a teacher, this list looks very familiar. Poster frames. Dry-erase markers. Blank self-adhesive labels ... These are the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, shown Sept. 4, 2019, is seeking to thwart opponents seeking to stop Britain's otherwise-automatic exit from the European Union.

Commentary: Boris Johnson — in the thick of Brexit — is presiding over Britain’s stupidest hour

September 4, 2019 at 4:29 p.m.

Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of Britain's declaration of war on Nazi Germany. That country's brave stand against Adolf Hitler is still rightly regarded as what Prime Minister Winston Churchill...

In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington is seen at sunset.

Commentary: Senate Democrats’ unprecedented threat against the Supreme Court

September 3, 2019 at 5:11 p.m.

In 2017, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., accused President Donald Trump of showing "a disdain for an independent judiciary that doesn't always bend to his wishes" after Trump criticized...

Farming dropped from 43% of employment in 1860 to 1% in 2015. Tractors and mechanization, better seeds, more fertilizers and irrigation are considered responsible for the shift.

Commentary: Have we lost our economic dynamism? Look at the work we do.

September 3, 2019 at 10:21 a.m.

On this Labor Day, the American economy — the source of jobs for almost all of us — is full of promise and peril. It is hard not to be...

New development in Detroit's Brush Park neighborhood flanks a view of the Renaissance Center, which is General Motors' world headquarters, on July 23, 2019.

Commentary: Detroit’s ‘renaissance’ masks its pervasive poverty

August 31, 2019 at 3:00 p.m.

Detroit, which was settled by French colonists back in 1701, is sometimes called the "Paris of the Midwest." But while few would see many similarities between Paris and Detroit today,...

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