In his new book "The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two," journalist Steve Drummond tells the little-known story of how a little-known Senate committee headed by a little-known senator from Missouri led a bipartisan battle to strengthen America by ...

June is Pride Month, so it's officially time for conservatives to lose their minds in an orgy of antigay bigotry not-that-convincingly disguised as traditional morality. The influx of GOP rage directed at anything with a rainbow on it comes hot on the heels of an effort to take down Target for ...

The Democratic Party, long known as the party for working people, is now for freeloaders. Democrats want taxpayers to support people who refuse to get off the couch and get a job. That's the major reason Democrats and Republicans in Washington were locked in a stalemate for weeks over hiking ...

Last week, the United States Supreme Court, in a surprising display of unanimity, upheld the traditional values underlying property rights when it prevented the Environmental Protection Administration from regulating mud puddles. Here is the backstory. I have often thought that after Abraham ...

"If you can't admire Joe Biden as a person," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham once said, "you've got a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation, because what's not to like? He's as good a man as God ever created." That was back when Graham had credibility. Those were also the days when he ...

Too many politicians are thespians. When there's a conflict — as there often is — between appearing to solve problems and actually helping to solve those problems, politicians can almost always be counted on to put appearance over substance. Unfortunately, politicians succumb to this bias ...