Politics attracts more than its share of crackpots, and we shouldn’t blame candidates for the excesses of their deranged fans, but a teachable moment went sadly unrealized last week when Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky visited Mesquite.
Opinion Columns
The devil is not in the details. It’s in the entire conception of the Iran deal, animated by President Barack Obama’s fantastical belief that he, uniquely, could achieve detente with a fanatical Islamist regime whose foundational purpose is to cleanse the Middle East of the poisonous corruption of American power and influence.
A recent Gallup poll shows more people would vote for an atheist for president than would vote for a socialist.
Two presidential candidates dropped in on Nevada during the past three days, and they couldn’t have been more different.
Attorney General Adam Laxalt joined a lawsuit against the EPA over water rules, with the full cooperation of Gov. Brian Sandoval.
For a group of conservative lawmakers and activists who’d love nothing better than to circulate a petition to repeal the just-enacted tax increases of the 2015 Legislature, the hurdle of the so-called single subject rule is a high one.
After a massacre like the one at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., our immediate reaction is to do something. Something, for politicians, means legislation. And for Democratic politicians, this means gun control.
Now that people are calling to replace Hey, Reb, the UNLV mascot who had Confederate origins, with a less offensive choice, here are some possible alternatives.
Pat Spearman said she knew immediately when she heard about the slayings of nine people in a historically black South Carolina church last week that it was an act of racial hatred.
It’s long past time for the battle flag of the Confederacy to be removed from government property, everywhere in the United States.
It’s time for a new strategy in Iraq and Syria. It begins by admitting that the old borders are gone, that a unified Syria or Iraq will never be reconstituted, that the Sykes-Picot map is defunct.
There came a moment during Bernie Sanders’ town hall meeting at Treasure Island on Friday when he blurted out a seemingly spontaneous line that was really anything but.
Review-Journal political reporter Laura Myers died Friday after a long battle with cancer. She was 53.
Maybe instead of “Ready for Hillary,” the slogan should be, “Yeah, I guess.”
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson addressed the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials in Las Vegas Wednesday.