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Why The Young Tune Politics Out

A rising college freshman describes his experience with the mainstream media as a news organization intern, and how it shows why so many young people aren't interested in politics.

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Howard Dean: Supporting Pro-Life Democratic Candidates for Congress Not Acceptable

The former Vermont governor, presidential candidate, and chairman of the Democratic National Committee wrote that he won't support the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee if it supports Democratic candidates who oppose legal abortion. The chairman of the committee says now is not the time for litmus tests on abortion

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Obamacare Repeal Not Dead Yet? Trump Not Giving Up

President Donald Trump is still trying to get Republicans in Congress to try again to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act, also known as Obamacare, despite recent reversals.

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Could Get Up To Six Months in Jail After Conviction

A federal judge found the former sheriff of the county that includes Phoenix, Arizona guilty of violating a court order for having deputies stop suspected illegal immigrants. The conviction could carry up to six months in jail and a stiff fine for Joe Arpaio, 85, who lost a re-election bid

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Tunisia Outlaws Letting Rapists Escape Punishment By Marrying Victim; Other Arab Muslim Countries Urged To Do the Same

In several predominately Muslim Arab countries a rapist can escape punishment if he marries the victim. But human rights advocates want those countries to abolish such provisions in the law.

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Mark Steyn Nailed Current Obamacare Debate — Seven Years Ago

Obamacare was worth passing for the Democrats even though it was unpopular because it created a government behemoth that spineless Republicans were unlikely to ever undo. Mark Steyn predicted the current Republican floundering over Obamacare even before Obamacare was passed — way back in March 2010.

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Union Leader Publisher: Donald Trump Needs His Own Pat Buchanan

Joe McQuaid, publisher of The Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire, describes Patrick J. Buchanan's latest book about his years as an aide to President Richard Nixon. President Donald Trump could use an aide like Buchanan, McQuaid argues.

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Jesuit Author Proposes New Catholic Sexual Morality

Father James Martin, former editor of the Jesuit magazine America, has written a book calling for a change in how the Catechism of the Catholic Church describes homosexuality. Rather than "intrinsically disordered," he proposes the Church call it "differently ordered" — something a fellow priest reviewing the