Shame is a powerful feeling that can keep behavior in check. So what happens when political leaders feel no shame at all?

As provost and senior vice chancellor, Joseph J. McCarthy has primary responsibility for the University of Pittsburgh’s academic mission, including supporting scholarly excellence among more than ...

It’s time for Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran to step up in opposition to abuses of power by the Trump administration. Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA I first met Jerry Moran in the Kansas Legislature in the ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio fired the latest shot heard 'round the world, making clear that President Donald Trump‘s effort to shame Europe for backsliding on liberties like free speech comes with ...

Is the legendary CBS eye being blinded? From Edward R. Murrow’s tough reporting about Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch hunts in the 1950s, through Walter Cronkite’s potent critiques of the ...

Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, is about to become the latest example of what you might call the Trump Boomerang Effect. Shortly before airtime on Sunday night, Weiss pulled a piece ...

We need to ask the question asked by Joseph N. Welch of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy. I was watching television in 1954 when Welch, then the attorney for the U.S. Army, asked Sen. McCarthy, “Have you no ...

While much of the focus on President Donald Trump’s comments after Rob Reiner’s death was justifiably on how outrageous and just plain cruel they were, two other Trump characteristics revealed in his ...

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