this week tv program

Parents of African-American boys know to have "The Talk" about how to behave around police.

President Obama's firm determination that no more American combat forces will be introduced in the Middle East battlefield may well thwart his intention to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the new threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

With weekend visits from Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan, Baltimore turns eyes to Ferguson.

The press has its faults, but saying it shills for politicians to gain cover for its own is quite a stretch.

The president's exchange of five Taliban leaders for Bowe Bergdahl was a poorly thought out political strategy

Jonah Goldberg writes that libertarians and conservatives have many more similarities than differences.

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.

Jules Witcover laments that propagandistic punditry has largely replaced sober discussion of the nation's affairs

Vice presidential nominee talks about returning power to the people, but the people he listens to already have the power.

We talk to show hosts and executive producers about O'Malley's TV image and what he brings to the network and cable news talk show table

When it hurts Democrats, it's a distraction; when it hurts Republicans, it's a "serious issue"

The U.S. business community goes strangely silent during debt ceiling debate and the results are predictably disastrous