What does the U.S. want to achieve in the Middle East?

Large foreign policy constructs should be viewed with suspicion, but even an ad hoc policy should be able to answer that question.

A chill pill for ed settlement cynics

Cynics are often right about politics and politicians, but in the case the conspiracy theories are farfetched.

The prospects for a state or federal legal challenge are minimal.

He embodied the axiom of disagreeing without being disagreeable.

When education organizations needed votes, their “best friends” weren’t there.

Their apocalyptic proclamations ignore that the recent state land trust distribution formulas have shortchanged schools.

Sunday’s election may be the last truly democratic choice Turks make for a while.

Television personalities seem incapable of getting beyond gotcha questions.

Getting more money to schools and averting a constitutional crisis wasn’t easy.

While the tactics of the Shutdown Caucus are wrong, Washington is proving that its critique has merit.