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Zito: Democrats may need the courage of a Hugh Scott moment

Hours after President Joe Biden's feeble debate performance Thursday night that left voters across the country stunned, two of Pennsylvania's most powerful Democrats, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), pushed back against calls for Biden to step down from his reelection ...

Erickson: A festering evil in the shadows

"The Terrorism Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again," read the headline of a column penned by Graham Allison and Michael J. Morell in Foreign Affairs. Allison is a Harvard professor. Morell was the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. A series of news stories after their article ...

Barone: COVID-19: Another fail-safe institution proves not so safe

Between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health was doubled. This was an extraordinary enterprise after the multi-year, post-Cold War decline in defense spending and at a time when government agency budgets tended to be increased marginally or carried over from previous ...

Charen: Donald Trump versus the 10 Commandments

The governor of Louisiana just signed a law that will require all public classrooms in the state — from kindergarten to universities — to post the Ten Commandments "on a poster or framed document at least 11 inches by 14 inches ... in easily readable font." For the first time since ...