Now that John McCain has been laid to rest, it’s worth paying tribute to his special relationship with Latinos — especially Mexican-Americans in the Grand Canyon State.
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Imagine how different the world would look today if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election. We may disagree about whether things would be better or worse, but there’s not much question that they would be different. Things like the composition of the Supreme Court, the shape of our health …
This column isn’t really about Texas. But a U.S. Senate race in my home state is assuming an instructive pattern for other congressional and gubernatorial races. It pits Trumpism against a version of progressive liberalism that is being tested elsewhere nationally.
If elections were decided on volume of yard signage, Beto O’Rourke — the dashing El Paso Democratic congressman, whose Irish heritage and Ivy League pedigree are belied by his conveniently Hispanic-sounding nickname and his propensity to drop the f-bomb during political rallies — would have …
This Labor Day, most Americans who need to work for a living still have a long way to go before they recover what they have lost over the past four decades.
Before joining our union a few years ago, Camika Lewis was making just $7.25 an hour working for a subcontracting company as a customer service representative at Newark International Airport. For more than two decades, she had been putting in a full 40 hours a week at the airport, but was fo…
In tribute to John McCain, this Labor Day weekend I’m serving up straight talk about the American work ethic.
Paul Manafort’s conviction and Michael Cohen’s guilty plea have spurred heated speculation from cable news pundits about the possible impeachment of President Donald Trump — though far less from Democratic and Republican congressional leaders.
A car can look like a fantastic bargain on the lot, only to reveal itself as a lemon when you drive it away. It’s not so different with trade agreements.
More than 1,600 women were murdered by men in the U.S. in 2015. That’s more than four each day. More than half died by gunshot. Almost every state with a high homicide rate for women has a stack of gun-lobby pamphlets in the place where its gun laws should be. But let’s not talk about those …
The irony of Donald Trump’s presidency is that he is obsessed with loyalty. Yet he surrounds himself with traitors.
We are mourning Sen. John McCain this week — most of us, at least — and well we should. But what exactly are we mourning? Why do we feel a sense of loss?
Our children are our most precious asset, and their safety is of paramount importance to the future of our state and country. Schools are a place for young minds to grow, explore and learn, so they may become knowledgeable and confident citizens who will make our world a better place.
It is not a good time for those who want to believe — in their faith or in their government. No one expects any institution to be perfect, particularly those that are large and complicated. But why do so many have to be perfectly corrupt, spurring cynicism in those once so willing to give th…
On both sides of the political spectrum, a new argument is gaining traction: The impeachment of Bill Clinton is a strong precedent for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Someone needs a hug. Many white Americans are feeling pushed out, pushed aside, pushed around and pushed against the wall.
National political attention has focused on the races with the most short-term 2018 impact: the battles for some 60 House seats and a dozen Senate seats that will determine if Democrats can regain control of one or both houses of Congress and start holding the Trump administration to account…
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ description of college students as “sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes” might just be the best example of alliteration from a government official since Vice President Spiro Agnew called the news media “nattering nabobs of negativism.”
As president, Donald Trump seems guided by two overriding priorities. First and foremost, he is a white nationalist who has spent his adult life slighting, mocking and lobbing insults at one ethnic, racial and religious minority after the next.