Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be central to a ...

Where is Barack Obama? Democrats had been frustrated that their charismatic former president had gone silent on MAGA’s march of mayhem. Where is that smooth, persuasive voice? It has risen. Obama has spoken, and Democrats would do well to take in the message. “You could be as ...

Is your home your castle? Not when eminent domain law lets politicians confiscate your property if they claim it’s for “public use.” Politicians say they need the power to take property to build public projects like roads and railroad tracks. OK. Seems reasonable. But now, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Threats to members of Congress are on the rise, security officials told senators Tuesday at an emergency briefing in the wake of the killing of a Minnesota state lawmaker in her home over the weekend. U.S. Capitol Police leaders and Senate security officials said threats ...

After Israel took out at least two of Iran’s top scientists behind the development of nuclear weapons (and promised to kill more), my high school fight song came to mind. At football games after a touchdown we sang, “Hit ’em hard and hit ’em again. Show ’em now that we’re gonna ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining "June" and "nineteenth" — has only ...