The other day on MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace asked her guest, Rep. Karen Bass, about President Donald Trump: “Other than endangering the lives of those four congresswomen that he targeted in those racist tweets ... Do you believe he’d have blood on his hands if there were a racially inspired atta…

Thirty months after setting the goal of sending a mission 239,000 miles to the moon, and returning safely, President John Kennedy cited a story the Irish author Frank O’Connor told about his boyhood. Facing the challenge of a high wall, O’Connor and his playmates tossed their caps over it. S…

President Donald Trump’s playground taunt Sunday that “the Squad” of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” dominated Monday morning’s headlines.

As the only pharmacist currently serving in Congress, I am a member of the Doctors Caucus. Recently, a group of us traveled to McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector to see firsthand conditions at the border with a focus on medical treatments for children and how families are …

Democrats in Congress have again brought the minimum wage to the national political stage.

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James Thomas Lindley died on March 23, 2019, in Deltaville, Va. He is survived by his wife Sharon, four children, six grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. He was also a friend of mine. We were graduate students together in the University of Georgia Ph.D. program in economics durin…

The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is a sprawling swamp that stretches across a good part of Southeast Georgia. Along with being a natural playground for people looking to take a trip in a canoe, going camping and other recreational activities, it is also home to endangered species such…

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do,” said global football legend Pele prior to his retirement from the game.

When Sir Kim Darroch’s secret cable to London was leaked to the Daily Mail, wherein he called the Trump administration “dysfunctional ... unpredictable ... faction-riven ... diplomatically clumsy and inept,” the odds on his survival as U.K. ambassador plummeted.

The first time Obamacare supporters had their day in court, the law largely survived. Could another lawsuit to overturn the law prove more successful? And would that be a good thing, at this point?

With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40 percent of his 10 Senate years the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Congress passes these in order to spare itself the torture of performing its primary function, which i…

The agonizing fact for Democrats this summer is that President Trump appears to be gaining ground on domestic and foreign policy, while his potential challengers are quarreling and mostly spinning their wheels.

Turns out the winner of the Democrats’ first series of debates was President Trump. According to the Washington Post/ABC News poll, after the Democrats debated, Trump’s approval rating went up to 44 percent among all Americans. But that is not really the number to focus on.

Since the Democratic debates in June, the tide seems to have receded for the party and its presidential hopefuls.

A new Gallup poll shines a spotlight on the deep political divide in America and surely points to what the upcoming presidential election will be about.

I called them the Three Wise Men. They came not bearing gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense. They brought service, dedication and integrity. And as with all wise men, they lived their example.

On June 18, a joint meeting of the Brunswick City and Glynn County commissions was held to hear from a representative of the U.S. Census Bureau about the upcoming 2020 census. The aim was to ensure that Glynn County has an accurate count next year so they can secure as much federal funding a…

Like, love or loathe him, it is clear that President Donald J. Trump’s brand of politics is scorched earth. If you take a swing, he will swing back and probably harder. His blows don’t always connect of course, and he often ends up damaging himself.

This seems like a good time for Americans to remember their Faulkner, and one of his most famous lines: The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

If California Sen. Kamala Harris is elected president in 2020 and reelected in 2024, by the time she leaves office 114 months from now she might have a coherent answer to the question of whether Americans should be forbidden to have what 217 million of them currently have: private health ins…

I am proud to be an American. Yes, I know that our system of government is not perfect, but I firmly believe that it is the best in the world. We are an exceptional country — not because our people are exceptional but because we have a different and exceptional structure of government. I am …

With the first round of Democratic Party debates behind us, Americans have now heard from their candidates why they think they should run the country.

“The liberal idea has become obsolete. ... (Liberals) cannot simply dictate anything to anyone as they have been attempting to do over the recent decades.”

Politics keeps getting weirder by the day. That must be frustrating to the wingnuts on both extremes of the political spectrum who think a middle ground doesn’t exist.

During a recent student orientation event at CCGA, I was given 15 minutes to teach a group of teenagers something about economics. I chose to use a 3-part demonstration:

“We’re just trying to get people out of their cars, there’s a C02 crisis,” says David Estrada, Chief Legal Officer for Bird, an electric scooter rental company to USA Today.

“For too long our leaders have failed us, taking us into one regime change war after the next, leading us into a new Cold War and arms race, costing us trillions of our hard-earned tax payer dollars and countless lives. This insanity must end.”

For some reason whenever a major national holiday comes around, I immediately recall past celebrations of our country — held in other countries.