BY JOE CONASON Hoping to re-brand their declining party, a group of prominent Republicans recently launched a national “listening tour,” presumably as an exercise in market research. They would like to know why voters – and especially younger voters – increasingly reject the GOP. They want to “ask the American people what their hopes and […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH You expect some people to write a book. You see their name when you’re scrolling titles or actually looking at books, and you say, of course he or she would write a book. That was not my reaction when I saw that Quinn Bradlee has a new book out. Quinn Bradlee? I […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Sam Rayburn, a longtime speaker of the U.S. House, once said, “Every now and then, a politician ought to do something just because it’s right.” Last week, 45 U.S. senators dodged an excellent chance to do just what Mr. Sam advised. At issue was a straightforward, common-sense amendment proposed by Dick Durbin, […]

BY FROMA HARROP As tornadoes, thunder and lightning rampaged across the Heartland last week, the crowds piled up at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Every bar stool had someone on it, and restaurant lines stretched down the corridors. This was a bizarro world, where the airport workers kept arriving and leaving, and only the travelers stayed put. […]

BY KAREN WEBB I find it extremely hypocritical that the Catholic Church is against the death penalty and yet it had no problem with George...