Bernie Sanders's single-payer plan isn't a plan at all  —  Sanders's long-awaited health care plan is, by turns, vague and unrealistic.  —  Hillary Clinton has made a lot of bad arguments about Bernie Sanders's support for single-payer.  But her best argument was her simplest …

GOP to blame for civility's breakdown  —  If you ask me, President Obama is being way too hard on himself.  —  “It's one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better,” the president said during his final State of the Union address last week.

Donald Trump's Epic Weekend Meltdown  —  Maybe Donald Trump needs some of that “free” mental healthcare that the Democrats were talking about last night.  —  If you are like most ordinary Americans, you probably spent the weekend watching the NFL playoffs, or spending time with your family …

Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big  —  Fifteen years ago this month, on Jan. 20, 2001, his last day in office, Bill Clinton issued a pardon for international fugitive Marc Rich.  It would become perhaps the most condemned official act of Clinton's political career.

Secret files exposing  —  evidence of widespread match-fixing by players at the upper level of world tennis can today be revealed by BuzzFeed News and the BBC.  —  The sport's governing bodies have been warned repeatedly about a core group of 16 players - all of whom have ranked in the top 50 …

Richest 62 people as wealthy as half of world's population, says Oxfam  —  Charity says only higher wages, crackdown on tax dodging and higher investment in public services can stop divide widening  —  The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new Oxfam report showing …

In primary challenge, Wasserman Schultz faces unprecedented test  —  For Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the problems with the left just keep coming.  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) chief has infuriated many Democrats with her handling of the party's presidential primary debates.

Defending UofL law school's compassion project  —  As I approach the end of my 20th year as a law teacher, I should no longer be surprised that law professors can find a way to complain about things as seemingly pleasant and uncontroversial as blue skies and children's laughter.  Or, in this instance, compassion.

‘13 Hours,’ Benghazi and the slippery definition of ‘political’  —  In a juxtaposition so perverse that it could only have been dreamt up in Hollywood, the holiday designated to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. — America's most prominent practitioner of nonviolence — has become the go-to weekend for war movies.

Restoring the middle  —  Ok, enough.  —  Ok, enough with the anger.  —  No one can govern with anger as their motivation.  It leads, as history has shown all too often, to profoundly unfortunate results.  It is also antithetical to the American dream.  —  This is not a nation built on anger.

California man believed part of Oregon standoff crashes van on icy road  —  Darrow Burke, 57, crashed this white Ford van early Sunday near Hines.  The Oregon State Police said he was wearing his seatbelt and was uninjured, although he was cited for driving without a license.  (Oregon State Police)