opinion

Overseas, almost everybody I have ever met wants to be American, or at least in America. I realize that sounds chauvinistic, perhaps arrogant, but it is true – and for myriad reasons, ranging from traditions to scenery, roots to realities. From sea to shining sea, ours is a blessed nation …

Even on Capitol Hill, there is a God. Last week, the nation’s religious leaders stood up to ask their elected officials to look past politics and see that children — not theoretical abstractions but real, young individuals — are suffering because of inaction by Congress. The children who have come …

Democrats have a strategy for holding the U.S. Senate this year: Limit their losses to five seats or fewer, and then pick off Sen. Mitch McConnell, perhaps even swipe the GOP’s open seat in Georgia. It won’t be easy. Three Republican nominees—Montana Rep. Steve Daines, former South Dakota Gov. Mike …

Monica Lewinsky has returned, and it’s a good thing. She’s a smart, thoughtful woman who deserves to be able to take her life back from those who prefer she stay silent, and stay away. I’m sure there’s nothing more irritating to Hillary Clinton than those you use and abandon who …

The Supreme Court’s ruling in theObergefell v. Hodges(same sex marriage) case is a wholesale redefinition of one of the pillars of human civilization – the family – at the demands of a movement that in historical terms sprung up only yesterday. Redefining marriage will have far-reaching and unintended consequences. It …

What is it about those North Koreans? They always manage to stage a crisis to coincide with the American holidays to get maximum press coverage. But the unexpected death of the country’s “Dear Leader” a week before Christmas? That’s quite an event to arrange — even for North Korea. Kim …

Washington’s inability to act decisively when foreign developments pose great risk and opportunity is again on prominent display. Reprising the philosophy of his former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” President Obama has used the uprising in Libya to ride …

Warning: This is an April Fool’s Day Column. It lays out a way to cut federal spending, by trillions, and how to get it done in months, not years. Washington Insiders who hear about this turn white with fear. You have been warned. The solution: powerfully change the incentives for …

On Sunday, May 1 the Catholic Church declares Pope John Paul II to be “Blessed,” a step on the way to being declared a saint. This is done not as a judgment on the effectiveness or influence of his pontificate, nor on the depth of his knowledge of theology, but …

Oops, she did it again. Six weeks after she called Syrian butcher Bashar Assad a “reformer,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has goofed a second time. Although she accuses Assad’s government of “unlawful detention, torture, and the denial of medical care to wounded persons,” her prescription doesn’t even amount …