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People rest in cages at a detention facility, McAllen, Texas, June 17, 2018. An earlier version of this column included a photograph with an incorrect date.

Donald Trump's vicious assault on immigrant children hits America's moral gag reflex: Tim Kaine

Donald Trump's assault on immigrant children and parents has hit America's moral gag reflex. I have lived in Honduras and seen what they are running from.

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opinion

Trevor Noah sides with Ted Cruz, but still doesn't want him to scare kids at the border
Find out what brought this critic over to the senator's side in Best of Late Night

opinion

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on November 9, 2017

Donald Trump has always expressed love for authoritarian leaders, but we failed to listen
How did the US end up with a president who hates the press and envies dictators like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin?

nation-now

Demonstrators protest outside the Supreme Court in March as the justices heard the second of two challenges to partisan gerrymandering.

On partisan gerrymandering, Supreme Court got it right by not bending for sad Democrats
This is not a new issue or one courts should take on. The Supreme Court has never recognized “bummed out liberals” as a class worthy of protection.

opinion

President Donald Trump and Franklin Graham in Phoenix on August 22, 2017.

Evangelicals shrug as Donald Trump cozies up to leader persecuting North Korean Christians
Evangelical conservatives shrug as Donald Trump praises Kim Jong Un. Did North Korea's persecuted Christians matter more when Obama was president?

opinion

Rohingya refugees arrive in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, in 2017.

World Refugee Day: Please don't make it just another day
As a displaced Rohingya of Myanmar, I can attest to the anguish of the 25.4 million refugees around the world who need your help.

opinion

Border Patrol agents take migrants into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas.

At the border, Trump's zero tolerance makes zero sense
Costs of separating immigrant kids from their parents are high, and the returns are likely to be meager for America: Our view

opinion

Jeff Sessions: We don’t want to separate parents from kids
What the Trump administration wants is a safe, lawful system of immigration: Opposing view

opinion

The FBI Inspector General report on the Clinton email investigation.

Donald Trump is wrong. My client Peter Strzok is a patriot, not a 'sick loser.'
Donald Trump is attacking Peter Strzok, the FBI and the Justice Department to pre-emptively discredit the results of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.