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The phrase “concentration camp” is freighted with dark historical meaning. Most people hear it and instinctively think of concentration camps used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and other minority populations ...Read more

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is pleasing President Donald Trump by supporting a ridiculous indictment of former FBI Director James Comey over a benign photo.

Maybe Blanche thinks this foolishness will prevent him...Read more

Iran is again playing the four-corners stall game with its latest peace proposal — a sign that American leverage is paying off. President Donald Trump and the United States should continue to put maximum pressure on the ...Read more

The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has struck down Louisiana’s newly created majority-Black congressional district, narrowing the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The ruling is consequential not ...Read more

Less than 48 hours after an attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, some Republicans in Congress asked that the president’s proposed ballroom, now with a price tag of $400 million, be paid for with tax dollars ...Read more

The kid behind the counter, a kid with strong black dreads fountaining out of the top of his visor, says "That'll be $6.42."

I give him my debit card.

I went to bed last night with $0.65 in my checking account, but ...Read more

The British monarch came before Congress to jointly celebrate the 250th anniversary of the former American colonies throwing off his "five-times-great-grandfather" to become the independent United States. But the speech by...Read more

A colleague recently emailed me a picture of a seemingly political gesture that was roiling her office and asked me what I thought. The picture was of a 10-by-3-inch sticker, openly affixed to an employee’s desk, stating...Read more

Most Americans think of the Bill of Rights as a bespoke 1789 creation for a nation that was, in the signature “Hamilton” lyric of Lin-Manuel Miranda, “young, scrappy and hungry.”

Not so fast, said the great-great-...Read more

Almost 250 years after the American Revolution, it took a visiting British monarch to remind Congress what the rebellion stood for.

On his first state visit as king, Charles III didn’t pull any punches, although his ...Read more

Here’s one of those remarkable coincidences: Immediately after the president and first lady called for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be kicked off ABC’s air after he made a cruel joke at their expense, the entirely ...Read more

Indiana has shown the nation how to protect citizens from foreign adversaries at the state level.

This leadership follows a congressional report showing foreign adversaries are actively influencing American academia — ...Read more

According to Department of Justice officials including FBI Director Kash Patel, the indictment of David M. Morens for using his personal email account on official business is all about protecting the sanctity of government...Read more

As a law professor and sometime libertarian, I’m of three minds about news that the prediction-market platform Kalshi has banned three candidates for public office for placing bets on their own races.

My first thought ...Read more

CHICAGO — Independent would-be candidates for a Southwest Side congressional seat are uniting against two targets as they look ahead to November, one a familiar enemy, the other much less so.

President Donald Trump must...Read more

Carbon dioxide is plant food, so you might think pumping the atmosphere full of it would be better for plants. The trouble is that CO2 is also the world’s most prolific greenhouse gas, trapping heat in a way that creates...Read more

I've always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least a pinch of smug superiority. The Windsors are revered for nothing more than birth -- not talent, nor ...Read more

You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46% said they believed it was definitely or probably true that "the assassination attempt against Donald ...Read more

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday vetoed a sweeping election reform bill passed by the Legislature in March, the result of years of negotiations between factions in the House and Senate.

The bill seeks to make ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a bill funding most of the Department of Homeland Security within hours of it clearing the House on Thursday, effectively ending an 11-week partial shutdown.

The bill, which ...Read more