Columns

2018 midterms: He vs. she

WASHINGTON — Slowly but inevitably, the two major political parties have become the party of women and the party of men — guess which is which — so that the

What Gerald Ford could teach Beto in ’18

When people learn that I have spent the past 50 years either working in or covering the past 13 presidential campaigns, I’m often asked my opinion of what was the

23andMeToo

WASHINGTON — Now that the DNA is out of the bag, Sen. Elizabeth Warren can put her Native American heritage down for a nap — maybe. After two and a

The tragedy of grizzly bear management

A tragic fourth straight year of record-breaking grizzly bear mortality in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has been compounded by the concurrent tragedy of increasingly frequent human maulings and deaths. Most

Missing writer shows Saudi Arabia’s dark side

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As every country across the Mideast does with its leaders, it’s hard to escape posters and laudatory fawning over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Our epidemic of loneliness

WASHINGTON — If Sen. Ben Sasse is right — he has not recently been wrong about anything important — the nation’s most-discussed political problem is entangled with the least-understood public

Democrats should resist the urge to fight fire with fire

WASHINGTON — One measure of the effectiveness of a political movement is how it changes its opposition. And Donald Trump is in the process of driving portions of his Democratic

Even birth control is under attack

There was a time when Republicans and Democrats generally agreed that access to birth control was a public good. Most saw preventing unwanted pregnancies as key to making abortions rare.

Bravo, Mr. Secretary

On Monday, Secretary Zinke flew to Montana to announce a 20 year mineral withdrawal of new mining claims on 30,000 acres in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, before a group

The Kavanaugh coverage exposed cracks in journalism’s foundation

WASHINGTON — In the recent Supreme Court nomination showdown, American institutions underwent a stress test. And we saw the political equivalent of the collapse of Lehman Bros. The Senate Judiciary