“To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff,” Donald Trump told business leaders in October. “It’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm.”  Now, with his election victory, Mr. Trump’s…

We don’t yet know exactly how many votes Republicans will control in the U.S. Senate, but control they will — which means Democrat Chuck Schumer, will no longer be majority leader. That’s a pity; Schumer…

Immigration and the 50 million people in this country who were foreign born have been an unfair target for both political parties in this election. America needs immigrants and the economy would fall apart without…

Donald Trump, meet Grover Cleveland, the only other President in U.S. history to win a second term after losing his first bid for re-election. It’s a remarkable accomplishment and a political comeback for the ages.…

Antarctica is the only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the…

It’s time to vote again, to carry out a basic task of democracy. Or, as some would have it, to fulfill our sacred duty as Americans. This sort of elevated language for voting is common…

“So what?” are the two words that might still haunt former Vice President Mike Pence today. But it was almost four years ago, when a mock gallows had been constructed on the U.S. Capitol grounds…

Donald Trump isn’t the wannabe Hitler Democrats claim he is, but he sure seems to have a soft spot for the world’s dictators. This is one of the former President’s rhetorical habits that raises questions…

Flags mark the spot where a church or a school or a clubhouse has been temporarily remade as a voting site. Standing in line, waiting to get in, you feel a sense of purpose and…

It’s probably a sure thing that insulting Puerto Rico will quickly be forgotten.  But the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce might not be so quick to forgive. The setting was Sunday night in New York…