The week after he won the White House, Donald Trump announced his national security advisor.  It was 2016 and the pick was Mike Flynn, a man with an oddly pro-Russian worldview who only would last…

Allen County Commissioner Jerry Daniels asked for help Tuesday in keeping track of emergency management services. “We have a contract that increases every year. We’re purchasing vehicles and now we’re doing matching grants,” he said. …

In a fitting and just outcome, Infowars, the hateful tool of the odious Alex Jones, who profited from horrid lies about the murdered of children of the Sandy Hook school massacre, is now the property…

In choosing South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader, Senate Republicans appear to have recognized a crucial truth: It is in their party’s interest to be led by a Donald Trump supporter but not…

Get ready to welcome back polio, measles and other preventable viruses if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the  next secretary of Health and Human Services. There are few government departments that have as direct a…

With a newly emboldened Republican Party poised to take over the federal government and much of the nation, the question of what kind of party it will be going forward looms large. Will it continue…

President-elect Trump’s cabinet is shaping up to include many good people who will reassure the public that it didn’t blunder by betting on a second term. But Mr. Trump might undo it all if he…

Even before America’s election, the world was unstable, with wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, among other places, and crackling tensions in the Pacific.  The next 10 weeks could bring new perils. Donald…

“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…