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It is a sign of the blindly tribal partisanship of our age that Alabama Republicans continue to support a US Senate candidate as grotesque as Roy Moore.
Point Hope, Alaska, is tiny and ill-provisioned, an Arctic backwater so inaccessible that basic groceries have to be flown in and gasoline can only be brought in by barge during the summer.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission — the case of the same-sex wedding cake and the baker who refused to make it.
On the calendar this week was "Giving Tuesday," the informal start of the post-Thanksgiving charitable season, when many people make a particular point of donating to charity.
Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, repeatedly opposed her party's attempts this year to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But doing away with the ACA's individual mandate, a change included in tax-reform legislation being readied by Senate Republicans, is a different matter.
Driven far off course by gales and rough seas as they crossed the Atlantic in the fall of 1620, the Mayflower's 102 passengers made landfall at a spot much farther north than they had planned.
When a firearm is used in a terrible killing or terrorism, the reaction on the left is invariably an emotional attack on America's gun culture. With visceral predictability, liberals cry out for lawmakers to ban more weapons, block more buyers, or otherwise "make it stop."
All-electronic tolling came to the Massachusetts Turnpike late last fall, liberating drivers at long last – at very long last – from the hassle of toll booths and collectors.
I was heading home on the T the other day, gazing out of the window as the Green Line train pulled into Longwood. Across the tracks sat a young woman, presumably waiting for the next inbound train, which was 15 minutes away.
In an Oct. 1 referendum, the people of Catalonia voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Spain, the nation that has occupied their homeland for generations.
If unions are to be tolerated in government workplaces, their support and funding must be wholly unforced.
Pope Francis set the cat among the pigeons last week, telling an audience convened to mark the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church that "the death penalty is an inhumane measure ... regardless of how it is carried out" and must be regarded as "contrary to the Gospel."
It has been 52 years since the Supreme Court ruled, in *Griswold v. Connecticut*, that government may not ban anyone from using contraceptives.
Two of the oldest traditions in U.S. political history are at the heart of Gill v. Whitford, a case now before the Supreme Court.
In a unanimous decision two years ago, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down a state law that had criminalized the making of "any false statement" in a political campaign.
They don't sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" when the president delivers his State of the Union message, or when Congress convenes, or when Supreme Court justices assemble for oral arguments.
In a landmark referendum next Monday, Iraqi Kurdistan will vote on whether to declare independence. The outcome is not in question.
It was early September 1956, the High Holidays were approaching, and Elihu Schimmel was in the Cold War's coldest theater.
When Amazon last week announced plans to build a $5 billion second headquarters in North America, officials from sea to shining sea immediately began to clamor for the privilege of hosting the new facility.
When President Trump last week started a six-month countdown clock to end his predecessor's executive order protecting immigrants who were brought illegally to America when they were children, the denunciations came fast, furious, and fevered.
