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Byline: YANG YANG, HEATHER E. YOUNG-LESLIE, KIRSTEN SAMSON, TANYA PARK Lead Yang Yang is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Saskatchewan. Heather E. Young-Leslie is senior [...]

Byline: Rhae Lynn BarnesBoth Gov. Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring of Virginia, both Democrats, have admitted that they wore blackface as students in the 1980s in imitations of [...]

Many Icelanders are calling for the resignations of a group of politicians who were secretly recorded in a bar using sexist and obscene language about female colleagues, including making disparaging [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Given the pace of sexual harassment and abuse complaints against sitting members of Congress, the House and Senate ethics committees should staff up. They are likely to [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Heavy gunfire echoed down Darulaman Road, in the vicinity of Parliament and President Ashraf Ghani's private home, for more than an hour very early Friday morning. Police [...]

IRVINE, Calif. -- Dirty tricks. Accusations of scandal, financial malfeasance and espionage. Expensive television ads. Identity politics. Veiled charges of religious intolerance. These are the things that have defined the [...]

THE 2016 presidential race is already upon us. Do you find that prospect exciting or exhausting? If you chose the latter, I'm willing to wager it's in part because of [...]

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Politicians lie. Political groups do, too. Exaggeration, obfuscation and misinterpretation is the way politics has always been played. Political questions are not often black or white, [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer BEIJING - Don't suck up to your boss, don't use jargon when making speeches, don't act high and mighty, and never smoke or pick your teeth in [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board As the race for president heats up, so, too, do the words of candidates and their supporters. The latest extreme examples? A Dallas pastor who [...]

''WHAT was he thinking?'' That's the question columnists, talking heads and my (mostly female) friends have been asking about Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York, who announced Thursday that [...]

Byline: GARY MASON POLITICS: B.C. ELECTION The B.C. Liberals lecture about judgment, but fail to exercise it gmason@globeandmail.com Poor Ray Lam. If only he'd decided to run for the Liberals [...]

Byline: JOHN BARBER; jbarber@globeandmail.com Free beer for the first person who can figure out what Councillor Cesar Palacio is up to on St. Clair West. Bonus pretzels if they can [...]

Lobbyists are not the only ones who wine and dine lawmakers and their staff members. Journalists hoping to lubricate sources sit elbow-to-elbow with lobbyists at the same Washington steakhouses and […]

Senate Democratic leaders on Friday embraced a proposal to shed light on the murky practice of Congressional earmarks, reversing themselves after trying to block an almost identical measure the day […]