Why the TV industry keeps falling in love with Kennedys

He was “America’s Prince”. She was the States’ answer to Diana, a strikingly beautiful style icon in the making who would complete the fairytale, until that fantasy metamorphosised into...

By book

Jesse Jackson was an inspirational figure for many

There is always a pioneer. In American politics in the last decades of the 20th century, Jesse Jackson, preacher, civil right leader and lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr,...

Billionaire who wants to be California governor

Tom Steyer must solve this dilemma: How does he convince financially struggling Californians they can trust a billionaire to be their governor? Because, after all, the former hedge fund...

Voters

There's nothing phony about California elections

Mark Z. Barabak, Tribune News Service Is Mike Johnson stupid? The five-term Louisiana congressman earned a law degree and maneuvered his way to become speaker of the House. That...

A system that’s for sale, more than ever

America just passed the 50th anniversary of one of its truly terrible days — one that future historians can track as the beginning of the end of our democracy....

Nationalized elections

Colleges aren’t liberal-making factories

Open a newspaper or scan an opinion section, and you’ll likely encounter a familiar storyline: American universities have become ideological factories, churning out graduates stamped with a single political...

The Right may rue expanding presidential powers

Do President Donald Trump’s policies have staying power? Conventional Beltway wisdom would suggest no. But we are not in conventional times. It’s long been assumed that legislative actions have...