Brewer, an often erratic politician who once championed most causes of the far right of her party, took her time in doing it, but she...

In Federalist 78, Hamilton, writing as Publius, discussed several issues related to the judicial branch of the government that had been...

In January of 1993, as was his style and long after his BPA tenure had ended, Johnson committed some of the lessons to paper in an...

You might say football is in a way a metaphor for American culture. We love the ritual and root for our favorites, while quietly...

A quick Google search this morning turns up more than 130 stories on the 44 protesters arrested Monday in the Idaho State Capitol in...

OK, so I was wrong to think Peyton Manning had one more big game in his creaky 37-year-old body. My Seattle friends are rightly...

The New York Post – as ridiculous as a newspaper in those days as it remains today – offered the headline: “Dangerous Minstrel Nabbed...

Make a similar claim about a baseball pitcher or an NFL quarterback and you’re certain to get an argument about whether so-in-so is...

The consensus did not mean that the “site,” as locals call it, would ever be free from controversy. Then-Gov. John V. Evans, a Democrat,...

The consensus did not mean that the “site,” as locals call it, would ever be free from controversy. Then-Gov. John V. Evans, a Democrat,...

This is really all you need to know about Alex Rodriguez and his creams and shots and lozenges: Major League baseball accepted the word...

There is a truism in politics that the worst wounds are those that are self inflicted. The next most damaging wounds are those that are...

A few million of us have been, sort of, introduced to Lloyd George thanks to the PBS import of Downton Abbey, the Masterpiece series that...

It has always been a curiosity to me that such a fundamentally conservative public institution would maintain a one-off system that...

It has always been a curiosity to me that such a fundamentally conservative public institution would maintain a one-off system that...

From the partisan breakdown in Washington politics, including the now distant memory of a pointless and costly shutdown of the federal...

I did something this year that I have never done before. I kept track of everything I read. The list is eclectic, heavy on non-fiction,...

The 49ers football team will play the last game at The Stick tonight and one more old ballpark will go the way of the wrecking ball. Most...

Bethine Church died at age 90 on Saturday. Her health had failed markedly in the last few months and, as son Chase said, she simply died...

Let’s just say this: I know what the policy should be – no cell phone calls on airplanes. None. Zilch. With so very much glamor involved...