After his initial, unequivocal statement of admission and contrition, Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has strained credulity with his subsequent, turn-on-a-dime insistence that he was neither of two figures depicted in the racist photograph that appeared on his medical-school yearbook…
Posted: 24 May 2019 [07:02 PM] Posted: 24 May 2019 [07:00 PM] Columnist WASHINGTON - It’s often said that when our founders wrote the Constitution, they had a leader like Donald Trump in mind when they included various safeguards for our liberties and against abuses of presidential power. I think that…
Posted: 24 May 2019 [06:57 PM] President Donald Trump has ordered his former White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to defy a congressional subpoena. In support of this maneuver, the president’s lawyers have marshaled what looks like a bipartisan legal consensus that a president’s senior advisers are…
Posted: 24 May 2019 [06:54 PM] The Washington Post Nancy Pelosi has done it before. Earlier this year, she called President Donald Trump’s bluff, held tough and forced him to reopen the government after he shut it down over the wall. She has a knack…
Posted: 23 May 2019 [08:23 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - A banker who prosecutors say tried to buy himself a senior post in President Donald Trump’s administration by making risky loans to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was arrested Thursday on a financial institution bribery…
Posted: 23 May 2019 [07:00 PM] Twenty years ago this June, when my father’s youngest sister Gwendol passed away, I glanced over at dad during the funeral and thought, “He looks as if he has the weight of the world on his shoulders.” If my late…
Posted: 23 May 2019 [07:00 PM] The gloves are definitively off now that former White House counsel Donald McGahn ignored a congressional subpoena and didn’t show up to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning. McGahn was following express orders from President Donald Trump,…
Posted: 23 May 2019 [06:59 PM] When Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced last November his experiments making heritable genetic changes in human embryos followed by live births of twins, alarms went off. What shocked many scientists and others was how He used new technology for gene…
Posted: 23 May 2019 [06:58 PM] To the Editor: Public schools in Berlin are making efforts to incorporate more plants on students’ plates (Berlin school chefs learn about plant-based meals, May 19, 2019). Free plant-based training for cafeteria staff and greater plant-based offerings for students…
Posted: 22 May 2019 [08:51 PM] By To The Editor: Welcome to the smooth, relaxing sounds of Trump Radio. Grab a cool drink, your favorite conspiracy theory and unwind to the mellow tones of Lee, Brad, Mike and Bill as they…
Posted: 22 May 2019 [08:48 PM] By To The Editor: I read an article in The Bristol Press on May 11 about putting sidewalks on Divinity Street. I am asking all the taxpayers who went through the Residential Sidewalk Program are you…
Posted: 22 May 2019 [08:47 PM] Having failed to effectuate migrant family separation on a mass scale last year, the Trump administration has settled on a new scheme to torment struggling migrant families - this time by threatening to split children who are U.S. citizens from…
Posted: 22 May 2019 [08:45 PM] As medicine advances, a succession of highly efficacious but extremely costly therapeutic drugs have arrived on the market. The issue of how to keep medical costs from swelling, while benefiting patients in need of such effective medicines, is an important…
Posted: 22 May 2019 [08:44 PM] The Washington Post WASHINGTON - It’s instructive that Alabama has handed the anti-abortion movement a great victory by passing the most restrictive ban in the country - and Republican politicians who regularly tout themselves as pro-life don’t like it. Abortion…
Posted: 22 May 2019 [08:42 PM] South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg mesmerizes members of the media and many voters with the same profile - progressive, white and college-educated. He has almost convinced people you can go from mayor to president (if you’ve served in the…
Posted: 21 May 2019 [07:43 PM] I had heard grumblings about the downsides to storm chasing for a long time - poor driving habits, traffic jams as cars converge near violent storms, and the dangers of rogue chasers and hobbyists. It had always been on my…
Posted: 21 May 2019 [07:38 PM] As Memorial Day approaches, President Donald Trump has reportedly asked the Justice Department to ready paperwork to pardon several U.S. service members accused or convicted of war crimes, including murder, attempted murder and desecration of a corpse. Each case…
Posted: 21 May 2019 [07:37 PM] Dear Granddaddy, Does my mom have the right to tell me to finish college when she herself never finished? Jessica Well, Jessica, I’m not sure if it really comes down to a right. If you’re in college, I’m assuming you’re…
Posted: 20 May 2019 [09:00 PM] President Trump often cites the stock market as proof of his economic-policy success, so let’s hope he was watching the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday. The Dow fell 2.38%, and the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 fell even more, on…
Posted: 20 May 2019 [08:53 PM] Our planet is on life support. That’s the dire message from a landmark United Nations report this past week that found one million species of plants and animals - out of a total of eight million - are at risk…
Posted: 20 May 2019 [08:52 PM] The Washington Post You can tell which side of the aisle is optimistic about the politics of the abortion bans in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri and elsewhere. When asked about the Alabama ban, Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., (who lost her race…
Posted: 20 May 2019 [08:48 PM] Special To The Washington Post As Central American asylum seekers flood across the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas, overwhelming federal law enforcement agencies and facilities, Washington remains in gridlock. The Trump administration’s latest immigration proposal, put forth Thursday,…
Posted: 19 May 2019 [07:20 PM] Special To The Washington Post Given all the investment that parts of the media and many Democratic activists have made in former representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas, it is riveting - and painful - to watch the effort to…
Posted: 19 May 2019 [07:20 PM] Special to The Washington Post Less than a month after the inauguration of President Donald Trump and just a few hours after the first Muslim ban was issued, a mosque in Victoria, Texas, was set on fire - to be…
Posted: 19 May 2019 [07:19 PM] All eyes were on Alabama on Tuesday as the State Senate debated, and passed, what could become the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Under the legislation, which Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has not yet said whether she will…
Posted: 19 May 2019 [07:18 PM] It’s been a year since President Donald Trump made good on a campaign pledge to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The administration’s strategy: Turn the screws on Tehran with sanctions to compel Iranian leaders to work…
Posted: 17 May 2019 [07:39 PM] Editorial British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt concisely described the two big dangers embedded in the growing tensions between the United States and Iran. There is, he said Monday, “the risk of a conflict happening by accident, with an escalation that…
Posted: 17 May 2019 [06:39 PM] Editorial In the abstract, it might seem fitting for the president of the United States to deliver an address to the country as part of theFourth of July festivities in the nation’s capital. It is, after all, the country’s birthday;…
Posted: 17 May 2019 [06:39 PM] Special to The Washington Post For a younger generation of women, Alice M. Rivlin was an inspiration. Economics is a man’s field - less so now than in the past - but she showed that a woman could climb to…
Posted: 17 May 2019 [06:25 PM] Special to The Washington Post Alabama’s Senate has voted to ban nearly all abortions of pregnancy, with exceptions only when life or health of the mother is seriously threatened and when the child has a fatal disease. The bill is…
Posted: 17 May 2019 [06:15 PM] JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's Republican-led House on Friday passed sweeping legislation designed to survive court challenges, which would ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. If enacted, the ban would be among the most restrictive in the U.S.…
Posted: 16 May 2019 [05:53 PM] Bloomberg Opinion One of the most striking facts of today’s world is that young people do not seem to worry very much about nuclear war. Climate change is by far the larger concern, while nuclear war is seen as a…
Posted: 16 May 2019 [05:53 PM] Every time I see the latest economic news, I thank Hillary Clinton. Every time I see those high GDP numbers (up 3.2 percent last quarter), I thank Hillary. Every time I see those record low unemployment numbers for blacks, Latinos…
Posted: 16 May 2019 [05:51 PM] How can a prolonged and intensified confrontation between the United States and China be averted? To stop the expansion of sanctions and retaliation, both countries must sincerely explore ways to come up with compromises. The U.S. government has announced a…
Posted: 16 May 2019 [05:51 PM] Republicans failed to undermine the Medicaid program, the federal-state partnership that provides health-care coverage for the poor and near-poor, when they tried to repeal Obamacare two years ago. But the Trump administration might have found a way - by issuing…
Posted: 15 May 2019 [07:41 PM] The Washington Post President Donald Trump cannot admit that the short-term effects of his tariff war hurt Americans. He had to stop insisting China pays the tariffs when his economic adviser Larry Kudlow contradicted him on Fox News. Trump then…
Posted: 15 May 2019 [07:40 PM] The Washington Post When we moved from New Haven, Connecticut, last year, we struggled to leave our family home, attached not only to the relationships we had built but also to the leafy green streets, the exceptional Yale University libraries…
Posted: 15 May 2019 [07:39 PM] Editorial Among the mysteries surrounding President Donald Trump's conduct, one of the strangest is his penchant for meeting President Vladimir Putin of Russia without aides or interpreters, contrary to the practice of past presidents. The Post's Greg Miller has quoted…
Posted: 15 May 2019 [07:38 PM] Editorial New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has released a plan to combat gun violence. Alongside some familiar proposals - including universal background checks on gun purchases and bans on semi-automatic rifles ("assault weapons") and high-capacity magazines - he has some…
Posted: 15 May 2019 [07:37 PM] To The Editor: Federal employees serve and protect us every day at every level across the country and in our community. At no time was this more evident than during the 35-day partial government shutdown earlier this year. From…
Posted: 15 May 2019 [07:36 PM] To The Editor: West Hartford Insurance Agent Arrested. “Daniel Zaborowski, 45, charged with first-degree larceny, payment card theft, second-degree identity theft, third-degree forgery, more than $500 on a revoked payment card and receipt from illegal use of a credit card…
Posted: 14 May 2019 [07:37 PM] The U.S. and China inched closer to outright trade war on Monday when Beijing announced plans to raise duties on selected American imports. The announcement was pointedly timed, less than two hours after President Donald Trump tweeted, “China should not…
Posted: 14 May 2019 [07:35 PM] Dear Granddaddy, my 14-year old daughter told me she is 3 months pregnant. What should I do? Caitlin- A worried mom. Well, Caitlin, I understand that you’re worried about your daughter. I also understand that you are wrestling with a…
Posted: 14 May 2019 [07:33 PM] By To The Editor: No sprinklers, fire escapes, and didn’t hear any alarms at 180 Allen Street. Kudo’s to the North-Oak NRZ for helping the families that were displaced by the fire. I understand there is…
Posted: 14 May 2019 [07:31 PM] The Washington Post WASHINGTON - For House Democrats, this will be health care week. How many voters will notice? The answer will be instructive about how the constitutional crisis that is upon us will affect action on every other problem…
Posted: 14 May 2019 [07:30 PM] Bloomberg Opinion The discovery that hackers could snoop on WhatsApp should alert users of supposedly secure messaging apps to an uncomfortable truth: “End-to-end encryption” sounds nice - but if anyone can get into your phone’s operating system, they will be…
Posted: 13 May 2019 [09:01 PM] Kendrick Castillo is a bright light of selflessness and love in days where Americans move from one tragedy to the next, marking their sorrow with headlines and social media posts. The 18-year-old Colorado senior died Tuesday while saving his classmates…
Posted: 13 May 2019 [08:59 PM] President Trump owes the American people a fuller account of his financial dealings, including the release of his recent tax returns, because politicians should keep their promises, because the public deserves to know whether his policies are lining his pockets…
Posted: 13 May 2019 [08:57 PM] The Washington Post President Donald Trump thinks trade wars are “good and easy to win,” mostly, it seems, because he doesn’t understand anything about them. Which, to be honest, isn’t really news. Trump, after all, has just been saying the…
Posted: 13 May 2019 [08:56 PM] Bloomberg Opinion It’s still a long way to Iowa (where the caucuses are currently scheduled for Feb. 3), but we’re now within 50 days of the first Democratic nomination debates of the presidential cycle, to be held on June 26…
