National Editorials and Columns

They say most people younger than age 30 these days wouldn’t recognize the sound of a needle scratching across a record.

Illinois isn’t going to tax its way out of its fiscal crisis. Higher taxes in a state that already i…

On Jan. 24, 2017, then-national security adviser Michael Flynn was questioned by the FBI in his White House office.

Almost every strange story I’ve read in the newspaper or seen on TV these past few months seems to have happened on an airplane.

Maybe we should just skip to the end.Is that sacrilege? Is it too cynical by half? After all, this i…

I am waiting in the "poor pathetic schmuck" line for my boarding pass at the airport. There are at least 30 people in front of me. In the ne…

It is important to look beyond the riot.  Yes, last week’s violent demonstration by white supremacis…

President Donald Trump’s critics view Republican congressmen as his enablers. James Fallows, in the Atlantic, describes their behavior as th…

We don’t even have pronouns for this.That’s what accounts for the clumsy grammar of the statement pa…

Neither John le Carre, nor Frederick Forsyth, nor Robert Ludlum could have topped the real-life drama of international intrigue that is curr…