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President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations on Dec. 21, 2021, at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Column: Biden discovers just how limited his power is

December 22, 2021 at 1:44 p.m.

The president of the United States is often referred to as the most powerful person in the world. That description must come as some consolation to Joe Biden, who in...

Then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, second from left, talks with inmate Terrell Johnson, a participant in the Goucher College Prison Education Partnership at Maryland Correctional Institution-Jessup on July 31, 2015, in Jessup, Maryland. Also pictured are inmates Alphonso Coates, second from right, and Kenard Johnson. After a roundtable discussion at the prison, the Education Department announced that it would conduct a limited pilot program to give prisoners access to the Pell Grants, allowing them to take college courses behind bars.

Column: Biden’s belated education on turning inmates into students

December 17, 2021 at 1:07 p.m.

December is the month when we revisit the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a stony-hearted man who finally learns to be more generous and humane. That tale may strike home in...

Column: Texts presented at hearing reveal what Trump loyalists privately felt: Jan. 6 was a shocking disaster

December 15, 2021 at 5:47 p.m.

You know the country is in trouble when the voice of reason is Donald Trump Jr. The former president's noxious eldest son has an affinity for white supremacists, but when...

A statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin stands in front of the main Olympic stadium, called Lenin Stadium, for the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, Soviet Union, June 15, 1980.

Column: Take politics out of the Olympics

December 10, 2021 at 4:21 p.m.

Before the White House announced that no U.S. officials will be attending a certain global sporting festival in Beijing, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry objected to the idea....

Members of the Ukrainian army's 25th Airborne Brigade patrol a front-line position in a former neighborhood of country houses in Avdiivka, Ukraine, on Dec. 1, 2021.

Column: Biden’s blindness on Ukraine fits a US pattern

December 8, 2021 at 3:23 p.m.

President Joe Biden faces many foreign policy problems, but one involving Equatorial Guinea was not on my Bingo card. This week, though, administration officials took offense at the revelation that...

In an act of civil disobedience, demonstrators block vehicle traffic on Constitution Avenue near the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington.

Column: Abortion bans don’t protect rights of ‘the people’

December 3, 2021 at 1:08 p.m.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments over a Mississippi law banning abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The law roundly defies the court's decisions affirming a right to...

Chevron gas prices over the $5 mark in Visalia, California, on Nov. 16, 2021.

Column: Biden’s problematic ruse on gas prices

November 19, 2021 at 1:42 p.m.

It can be really bothersome to hear politicians lying. But sometimes it's more alarming to realize they may be telling the truth. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden sent a letter...

Liz Cheney was a senior official in President George W. Bush's State Department and has been elected to Wyoming's sole House seat three times. She was a member of the House Republican leadership.

Column: The purge of Liz Cheney reflects poorly on her party

November 17, 2021 at 12:59 p.m.

The Republican Party of Wyoming has formally banished Rep. Liz Cheney from its ranks. This decision calls to mind Evelyn Waugh's remark when told that Winston Churchill's son, a politician...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on a TV screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 3, 2021.

Column: The inflation uptick is no cause for alarm

November 12, 2021 at 3:08 p.m.

In the annals of American economic policy, the year 2020 will be remembered as a remarkable success. That may sound odd, considering that the economy suffered a seizure that caused...

Column: The legacy of torture in the US war on terrorism

November 10, 2021 at 12:24 p.m.

The 9/11 attacks were the worst acts of terrorism in American history, with horrible results to thousands of innocent people. But the U.S. government's response to it was a horror...

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