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Republicans are engaging in what has become their perennial post-election pastime: blaming their electoral defeats on social issues. If the party doesn’t moderate on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, Republican analysts endlessly advise, it will risk alienating voters and losing the future. I agree that substantive changes need to …

Trying to head off a stampede to the exits, the White House insists that Chuck Hagel — his disastrous Senate hearing notwithstanding — has the votes to become defense secretary. Maybe, but Hagel’s stumbling and incoherent statements should worry President Obama. Does the president really want someone who has so …

When it comes to former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, the left and right both have mixed emotions. As controversial as President Obama’s decision to tap Hagel may be, it’s critical our elected officials take all prejudice and bias out of the equation when it comes …