Politics

President Bush, reaffirming his support for the anti-abortion movement, told an estimated 200,000 abortion foes gathered under a hot, cloudless sky in the nation’s capital Saturday that their mission “must be to help more and more Americans make the right choice–the choice for life.” In a brief telephone address broadcast to the crowd over loudspeakers, … Read more

In this 2018 photo, Earlonne Woods gestures while speaking during an interview in Oakland. (Ben Margot / Associated Press) The day before Thanksgiving, Gov. Gavin Newsom granted pardons for 19 people, including award-winning San Quentin podcaster Earlonne Woods. “Ear Hustle,” the popular and critically acclaimed podcast that Woods co-founded from inside San Quentin State Prison … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a meeting of the House GOP conference, followed by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Nov. 13 in Washington. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and appointees have been targeted by bomb threats and “swatting attacks,” Trump’s transition said Wednesday. “Last night and … Read more

Mike DeWine speaks, Jan. 14, 2019, in Cedarville, Ohio. (John Minchillo / Associated Press) Transgender students from kindergarten through college at Ohio public and private schools will be banned from using multiperson bathrooms that fit their gender identities under a measure that Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday that he has signed. DeWine signed the … Read more

A girl uses her phone while sitting on a bench in Sydney this month. (Rick Rycroft / Associated Press) Australia’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first law. The major parties backed the bill … Read more

Gina Haspel, a Kentucky native, loves Johnny Cash so much she keeps a 5-foot-tall poster of the country music star in her office at the Central Intelligence Agency. She became a spy more than three decades ago, a time when few women filled that job, and rose through the ranks holding some of the agency’s … Read more

Then-President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in 2017 in Hamburg, Germany. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) They tend to gush over each other in public, but their private dealings are often opaque. Both are brazenly transactional, and cling tenaciously to grudges. Each likes to keep everyone around him guessing. … Read more

Like millions of Americans, Sandy Banning strongly supports the Pledge of Allegiance. As a single mother, she encourages her 9-year-old daughter to participate in this familiar daily ritual at her child’s public elementary school in suburban Sacramento. As Banning sees it, the pledge represents a succinct but powerful statement of the nation’s foundational principles and … Read more

At 76, Sen. Robert C. Byrd is the longest-serving Democrat in the U.S. Senate, and a man who Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), with a combination of exasperation and appreciation, recently called “a master at the game” of parliamentary procedure in the upper chamber. Byrd’s mastery of the Senate’s convoluted rule book makes him … Read more

All three of your Oct. 5 letter writers decrying Schroeder’s weeping before reporters, when she announced her withdrawal from the Democratic nomination race, branded this as a weakness making her unfit for the presidency. However, any serious Abraham Lincoln student is well aware that possibly our greatest President openly shed tears on many occasions. Even … Read more