Harper Lee: The author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” one of the most beloved and lasting works in American literature, died yesterday at age 89 in Monroeville, Ala. where she lived. Harper Lee’s first novel about race and injustice in …

Permawar: US warplanes struck an Islamic State camp in Libya today, killing about 30 people. The primary target was a man named Noureddine Chouchane, described as a senior operative in terrorist attacks in Tunisia. It’s unknown yet whether he was …

Cuba Libre: President Obama plans to visit Cuba within weeks as relations warm between the two countries, the NY Times reports. He would be the first president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge 88 years ago — and definitely cooler. …

Advice and Dissent: President Obama told reporters yesterday that he plans to ignore the Republican threat to wait until after the election to act on a Supreme Court nominee. “There’s no unwritten law that says that it can only be …

Big Brother: Former President George W. Bush came out yesterday to try to save the presidential candidacy of his little brother Jeb!, who’s been getting pummeled by Donald Trump. The former president told a crowd of 3,000, “Labels are for …

Advice and Dissent: With the brewing fight over replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, Republicans are demanding that Barack Obama be a placeholder for the last year of his term. Marco Rubio yesterday on NBC said …

Antonin Scalia: The body of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was barely cold before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that President Obama shouldn’t even think about trying to appoint a replacement. A statement from McConnell said, “The American people …

It’s Political: Hillary Clinton this week appears to be running for the third term of the Obama presidency, saying Bernie Sanders “has called the president weak, a disappointment. He does not support, the way I do, building on the progress …

It’s Political: Hillary Clinton went straight for the minority vote in last night’s debate with Bernie Sanders in Milwaukee. She said, “I want to tackle those barriers that stand in the way of too many Americans right now. African-Americans who …

Birds of a Feather: The Republican presidential candidates have flocked to South Carolina where their party’s next primary vote is scheduled for Feb. 20th. They’ll be missing former Hewlett Packard executive Carly Fiorina, who dropped out after scoring only 4.1 …