When it comes to managing schools, Thomas Jefferson had it right when he said: “The government closest to the people serves the people best.”
President Donald Trump has devoted much of his 3½ years in office to painting over the name of Barack Obama.
One of summer’s pleasures in Washington is the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
The police killing of George Floyd and worldwide Black Lives Matter protests raise many questions. Chief among them, what can anyone do?
Twenty years into the 21st century, it finally dawned on major American corporations they could no longer use mascots of black servitude to se…
In a week of peaceful protests, violent riots and widespread looting, the removal Tuesday of a Confederate monument in Alexandria may seem alm…
As the COVID-19 death toll neared and surpassed 100,000, President Donald Trump used his Twitter pulpit to sow fear, distrust and discord.
An inspector general investigates wrongdoing by the head of a federal department who’s also a staunch presidential ally.
It’s the least we can do.
‘We’re all in this together.”
I wasn’t going to write about Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia and his tuna melt.
Until now, masks were something other people wore.
As a few states bow to pressure to reopen businesses, medical professionals warn COVID-19 is sticking around and could get much worse.
Finding light in darkness
In a presidential debate before the 1988 election, Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush, the Republican nominee, was asked about heroes w…
When plague shuttered London theaters, William Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Like many others, I’m learning how to live in the time of coronavirus.
Democratic voters have spoken, and they’ve said “no” to presidential candidates who are (1) youngish, (2) female, (3) black or (4) rich.
Four years ago this week, I wrote that voters on Super Tuesday could put the brakes on Donald Trump — “but will they?”
Contrary to popular myth, Rosa Parks was not physically tired the afternoon she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
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Ah, Presidents’ Day, when mattresses go on sale. But wait. Let’s remember the official and legal name of the federal holiday on the third Mond…
The Democratic caucuses in Iowa Monday night were supposed to give Iowans the first say on winners and losers for the 2020 Democratic presiden…
Don’t expect Iowa’s first-in-the nation caucuses Monday to write history. More likely, they’ll write history’s footnotes.
Nobody would mistake President Trump for a tree hugger.
On the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, you’ll likely hear people quote from King’s inspiring “I Have a Dream” speech.
We’ve stopped answering the phone.
It’s finally 2020, and impeachment, presidential politics and the election threaten to drown us in a sea of negativity.
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