On Sunday, journalists’ inboxes overflowed with politicians’ statements of admiration for the late U.S. Rep. Walter Jones and his consistent independence from party. On Monday, this headline topped Google News: “Another government shutdown looms” —…

WASHINGTON — It’s been more than a decade since the nation’s capital conducted the grand and solemn ritual of bidding a final farewell to a former president. Now Washington is caught up in elaborate preparations…

Upon hearing that George H.W. Bush died, our first thought turned not to his time in the Oval Office but to his daughter Robin. The second child and the elder daughter of George and Barbara…