WASHINGTON 鈥� The Branch Davidians were founded in 1955, an offshoot of an offshoot of Seventh-day Adventists, with a Texas home named after Mount Carmel, which in Israel overlooks the plain known as Armageddon. Thirty years ago this month, America was collectively nearing the horrific April ...
WASHINGTON - 鈥淲herever I have gone in this country,鈥� said Kansas Gov. Alf Landon, the Republicans鈥� 1936 presidential nominee, 鈥淚 have found Americans.鈥� Time was, the nation rejected what it now needs: banal politics. Today鈥檚 embarrassments 鈥� Donald Trump, his prosecutorial ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� Chicago, a name said to derive from a Native American word meaning wild onion, has pungent politics. The mayoralty campaign that culminates Tuesday has featured, in Brandon Johnson, a comprehensively, almost exotically, inapt candidate. He was runner-up in February鈥檚 ...
PHILADELPHIA - In September 2010, President Barack Obama came here to the nationally acclaimed and locally revered Masterman School, one of this city鈥檚 five selective magnet schools. He called the 鈥渃ulture of excellence that you promote at Masterman鈥� an example 鈥渢hat I hope communities ...
WASHINGTON - As long as the awful law exists, concerning which the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Monday, be careful what you say to, or write about, unauthorized immigrants. Congress, in one of the federal government鈥檚 increasingly frequent offenses against the First Amendment, ...
WASHINGTON - In 1994, President Clinton鈥檚 certitudes included these: By 2000, America鈥檚 high school graduation rate would be 90 percent (it is still not) and students would be among the world鈥檚 best in math and science (they are not). Such blithe thinking frequently caused Sen. Daniel ...