Last year, Wyoming decided to allow voting by all those who have completed their sentences for nonviolent felonies. Alabama restored rights to 60,000 low-level offenders.
He sat out for a week and a half, but when he resumed practice, something was wrong. "I got very lightheaded and could barely feel my legs," he recalls.
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, a favorite of the president's, was the rare aide shrewd enough to step down while things were going well.
In the next two years, Congress is not likely to do much right, but it's also not likely to do much wrong.
But on one important issue, a national consensus is emerging that transcends party and ideology. America is becoming Weed Nation.
The combination of solid growth, low inflation and unemployment, and rising hourly wages is hard to beat.
Donald Trump waltzed into the presidency with coded but unmistakable appeals to the racial resentments of aggrieved white people
When the first world war ended 100 years ago, no one had to be told that it was an important event.
Often, we could learn from what people and leaders beyond our borders have to say. Declining to tap collective wisdom or draw on the experience of other countries is courting self-destruction.
After he disappeared while visiting Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul, Donald Trump was a portrait in timidity.
The revised NAFTA, christened the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, is the product of his peculiar approach to disputes.
Kavanaugh was a spectacle in belligerence and self-pity, vilifying Democrats for having the utter gall to take seriously the woman who says he attacked her at a party when they were in high school.
Brett Kavanaugh and his defenders could have used a thesaurus this week as they tried to cope with a second allegation of sexual assault.
Modern America is sharply polarized, battered by political furies and divided as never before.
Would Democrats prefer to delay his confirmation vote in hopes of gaining seats in the Senate in November?