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Partisan identity is now stronger and more meaningful for many Americans than race, ethnicity or religious denomination — and is viewed as a more legitimate justification for discrimination, says Jonah Goldberg.

What's both funny and sad is that there is remarkably little intellectual or ideological substance to the current populist fever, says Jonah Goldberg.

Ted Cruz has endorsements from some of the Religious Right's scariest voices, says David Horsey.

There seems to be only one year that is not an election year, and that is the first year of a new president's first term.

Conservatives should take the high road and liberals should join them, writes Jonah Goldberg.

The GOP has become a haven of cranks and extremists driven by personal hatred of President Obama.

The nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization has listed U.S. Rep. Andy Harris -- a Baltimore County Republican -- among the nation's "most anti-equality members of Congress."

A prediction: Hillary Clinton may be running against Rand Paul come 2016

The latest mass murder in California is leading to more jumping to preposterous conclusions about who's to blame.

House Republicans' hearts don't seem to be in another debt ceiling fight.

Despite how inextricably linked science and technology are to the American standard of living (half of all economic growth in the last 50 years occurred in S&T fields), many elected leaders are dangerously unaware of scientific reality.

With authentic scandals dropped in their laps, Congressional Republicans already show signs of overreaching

Bush deserves the criticism he's getting

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus' effort to limit debates and curtail the primary schedule are well meaning, but they won't stop candidates from doing what they want in 2016.

The Republican Party could solve its woes by splitting in two.

Leonard Pitts says Republicans' talk of a party makeover should be treated with wariness.

Cal Thomas says more women in power is a good thing but questions whether they are more able than men to get things done.

President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman. But neither development is likely to push Maryland's governor off the national stage.

Meghan Daum says that for women in high places, meeting a physical standard is part of the deal

Those who see Obama re-election shameful are living on a different planet

Leonard Pitts says the odds are against the party of angry, white men being able to change

Incumbent Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett and Democratic challenger John Delaney pitched vastly different approaches to deal with unemployment, federal deficits and immigration, while both hewed closely to their party's talking points during the first televised debate of the congressional race.

Unsubstantiated tax-dodging claim against Romney by Reid is not only unfair it undermines Obama's legitimate case against the Republican's tax plan

The question no one wants to ask about Michele Bachmann's probe into Huma Abedin's background is, what if she's right?

Republican Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, running for reelection in the now more Democratic Sixth District, casts himself as an "independent voice" in his first radio ad of the general election campaign.

With little ideological diversity and a cautious candidate, don't expect much excitement at the GOP convention.

Republicans are against critical thinking? That explains a lot

In politics, not only are facts no longer important, but they are not even the point

In a final puff of pomposity, the Newt Gingrich campaign comes to an end