Morton Kondracke

Dear Mr. Speaker: You are almost certain to hold the fate of 1.8 million “Dreamers” in your hands when the Senate concludes its marathon immigration debate. I appeal to you to ask yourself: What would Jack Kemp, your hero and mentor, want you to do? You'll be in charge of deciding how immigration gets ...

Judging by the enthusiasm, dedication, idealism and joyfully expressed righteous indignation on display at the Unrig the System summit in New Orleans last week, a potentially powerful national movement is building to combat the corruption and dysfunction visited on the nation by the Republican and ...

In response to Morton Kondracke's recent guest opinion (“Deporting 'Dreamers' would rival most shameful periods of U.S. history,” published Jan. 23) I have a question for you. Recently while traveling through a back road of Fauquier County my mind was on work and not on the speed limit signs I passed ...

The fate of more than 1 million “Dreamers” will indelibly define America's character in the eyes of our own population and the world. The fact that these innocent young people have been kept in agonized limbo for years is bad enough. They were brought to the U.S. as children by illegal immigrant parents, ...

Ten years ago, The Atlantic's Ron Brownstein wrote a book, “The Second Civil War,” describing and lamenting the polarization and paralysis afflicting American politics. Since then, America has become an even more divided country, its political partisans split into tribes that literally hate each other.

Before our savagely polarized country rips itself apart with violent language and violent deeds, it's time for the nation's adult leaders to rally and fortify the political center. I'm not talking about national Republican and Democratic leaders. They're hopeless. They're momentarily talking up bipartisan unity after ...

Morton Kondracke. Special to The Times. IF you think this presidential election campaign has been ugly, wait — the next four years could be much worse. Assuming Hillary Clinton survives her email crisis and gets elected, House Republicans vow to spend “years” investigating her. Some are already ...

... a bipartisan budget, a highway bill and education reform. I wish Ryan had run this year. If enough of us write him in, maybe he will next time. Morton Kondracke is Roll Call's former executive editor and columnist. He is co-author of "Jack Kemp: The Bleeding Heart Conservative Who Changed America.".